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...July 20, but government estimates based on incomplete returns indicated that Ruiz Cortines had carried more than 80% of the vote. Minister of the Interior in President Miguel Aleman's government for the past four years, Ruiz Cortines was the choice of the official Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), which has governed the country for 22 years...
...Trouble. With three other candidates running, the campaign had been about as lively as one-party rule permits. Multimillionaire General Miguel Henriquez Guzman made a particularly spirited bid, and some 22 partisans were killed in pre-election scuffles. But by the time the PRI poured 85 million pesos ($9,800,000) into the campaign and Ruiz Cortines toured through towns and hamlets all over the republic, the government had things well sewed up. On the actual day of balloting, 80,000 armed troops and police stood guard; not a single shot was fired, and only two men were arrested...
...hundred bands blared. The yells of 70,000 partisans volleyed and thundered across Mexico City's Olympic stadium. When the tumult died down, a small man spoke into the mike. "Accepting the candidacy of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), I understand fully the grave responsibility of this nomination," said Adolfo Ruiz Cort...
With the nomination of Ruiz Cortínez, the solid citizens of PRI's leadership swung away from the flashy playboyism of handsome Miguel Alemán. Greying, frail and 58, with a strong facial resemblance to Boris Karloff (his nickname is Cara de Calavera-Skullface), Ruiz Cortínez is a far cry from the magnetic type traditionally admired by Mexicans. Said a political reporter last week, "Mexico is now going to get a Coolidge...
...that as President he will run his own show and will clean out the fat-contract men who surround the present administration. A middle-of-the-roader in domestic politics, he promises to continue Alemán's foreign policy of close friendship with the U.S. In the PRI tradition, he will not accept victory without putting up a show for it. Between now and July, he will tour the country in what he says will be a "gentlemanly and principally patriotic" campaign...