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Everything about Ruiz Cortines' past career indicated that he was a follower rather than a leader. Because of the early death of his father, a customs official in the old port city of Veracruz, he never got more than elementary schooling, and went to work at 16 as a bookkeeper's apprentice. When revolution swept Mexico, he joined the army and served eight years as a paymaster and paperwork man for generals. After the revolution, he served 13 years as a government clerk, rising finally to the job of chief of the government's vital statistics department...
...twelve years his junior) that lifted him from bureaucratic obscurity to high office. Alemán saw use for the older man's efficiency and administrative know-how ; Ruiz Cortines admired Alemán's energy and imagination. As Alemán rose from governor of Veracruz to Interior Minister, he took Ruiz Cortines along as administrative assistant. Then, when the governorship of Veracruz became vacant in 1943, Alemán helped get the job for his faithful friend...
...major in revolutionary armies, then as a government clerk with a passion for statistics, was honorable but undistinguished. His rise began in 1937 when he became Miguel Alemán's trusted aide. He followed Aleman right up the steps through the governorship of their native state of Veracruz and the Ministry of Interior to the presidency. But he is more than a protege of Alemán (who is twelve years his junior). Mexicans think that Ruiz Cortines, with his addiction to statistics, knows his country's problems, and that, as his frugal living testifies...
...monopoly. Recently, when his government raised a monument to Pemex in Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex' new Tenixtepec field, the country's biggest strike since Mexico took over its oil industry...
Died. Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram, 65, Medal of Honor winner (at Veracruz in 1914), wartime commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, onetime star athlete at Annapolis and later (1914-17) the Naval Academy's football coach; of a heart attack; in San Diego. In 1906, as the Navy's fullback, he caught a forward pass, scored Navy's first victory over Army in six years. During World War II he was responsible for the nation's sea lanes from the Arctic to the Falkland Islands, once said of his job: "I had little butter...