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Anniversary. In Veracruz, Mexico, Manuel Rodriguez Lopez, who claims that he is 103, and Ursula Mendez, 82, parents of two daughters, 58 and 56, celebrated their 62nd year together by getting married...
...major in the revolution, Ruiz Cortines has made a lifelong career as a bureaucrat. Back in 1914 he worked as a paymaster; one of the charges leveled at him during the recent election campaign was that he had been on the yanqui payroll during the occupation of Veracruz that year by U.S. armed forces. Ruiz Cortines, who refuted the charges, still wears a clerkish air, and takes a bureaucrat's professional pleasure in going through a good statistical report...
...were not for outgoing President Aleman, Ruiz Cortines might still be preparing statistical reports. Thirteen years ago, Aleman took Cortines on as an aide and factotum. As Aleman moved up- from the governorship of Veracruz to the Ministry of the Interior and to the presidential palace-his right-hand man moved right behind him. Will Ruiz Cortines be strong enough to go his own honest way now? His friends think so. He will continue Mexico's program of strenuous industrial expansion, they say, but with more orderly planning, "more austerity, more social justice, a more equitable distribution of wealth...
...dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alemán also stepped to the top. Through it all, he made no important enemies. "I was poor as a boy, and still am," he murmured. "I have always lived on my salary" (as Interior Minister, about...
Military Career: Served in the Philippines after graduation from West Point, and saw his first battle action in brushes with the Moros. Spent a year as an aide to his father's good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1907. He went on the U.S. expedition which seized Veracruz, Mexico in 1914, and scouted inland disguised as a hobo. When the U.S. entered World War I, MacArthur, then a major on staff duty, conceived the idea of a "Rainbow Division of National Guard troops from different states; though his superiors were hesitant to send National Guardsmen to France, he went...