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...Invited Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to a meeting in Washington next month. (Both St. Laurent and Ruiz Cortines accepted, the latter subject to approval of the Mexican Congress...
First Franco fired Education Minister Joaquin Ruiz Gimenez, 46, an energetic Catholic intellectual of mildly liberal tendencies, who last November made a speech calling on the government to "listen to the people's heartbeat." Thus he was a natural target for Falange Party criticism of the "dangerous freethinking atmosphere" on Madrid University campus. But the Falange was not the only voice in Franco's ear. Possibly for the first time, the grievances of Spain's rising middle classes (of whose restlessness under rigid Falange controls the student riots were a symptom) also claimed Franco's consideration...
...agriculture, which Ruiz Cortines and his eager, able Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz (TIME. Aug. 1) have emphasized with increased loans, irrigation appropriations and fertilizer plants, the President was able to report a 20% increase in production and alltime record yields of Mexico's basic export crops, coffee and cotton...
Coming to the presidency on a wave of national reaction against the free-spending glitter of the Miguel Aleman regime, Ruiz Cortines had recognized the need for a cleanup. He first weeded out corrupt officials, then went after the root causes of corruption: inadequate official pay and bureaucratic inefficiency. After devaluating the currency, he clamped on price controls, still spends several hours a week personally checking them...
Under Mexico's constitution, Ruiz Cortines can never be re-elected after his term runs out in 1958. But a dedicated man can get a lot done in three years, and it was very much in character that the President ended his midterm report with a renewed call to action: "Poverty, ignorance and disease still plague many of our countrymen ... It is our obligation to face these problems, even though we know we cannot end this tremendous task...