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...Mexico City, a friend asked President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: "What is your greatest single problem?" The President smiled wryly. "It is the great problem of Mexico," he said. "Look out that window and you will see Mexicans living in shacks, with nothing to eat but tortillas, with no shoes, no education for their children, no hope but one. That hope is that their President will somehow make things better for them...
Last week, halfway through his six-year term of office, President Ruiz Cortines reported to the Mexican Congress-and by radio to the nation-on his progress in solving the great problem of Mexico. His voice was flat, his prose dry. But there was a hint of justified pride in his tone as he ticked off some of the accomplishments of his administration...
...their troubles most of them earn slim profits. Returns average only 3% a year on investment, compared to 9% for manufacturers and about 20% for oil producers. But now Mexico has launched a new policy to give utilities a break. Reversing the long anti-utility trend, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation's needs. Said President Ruiz Cortines: "The objective of the government . . . is clear: to complement, advise and stimulate enterprise...
...fortunes. Much in demand at Mexico City cocktail parties, where he handles his quota of martinis, the chain-smoking Archbishop might long since have been a Cardinal in a land less nervous about princely trappings. He still watches his step. When the Archbishop drops in on President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (about once a month), secrecy surrounds the meetings, which are politely called "accidental" when they have to be called anything...
...Labor Department officials are deeply concerned, and Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has been trying hard to get guilty officials fired and jailed. But the bite is an ancient, entrenched custom in Mexico. Serrano, for one, could not wait. With 300 pesos, a big bite out of the savings that must provide for his wife and family while he is away, he paid the coyote. Last week he crossed the border and headed, literally and figuratively, for the lettuce...