Word: xochimilco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plastered? In Mexico City, the Francis Tours sightseeing program outlines a nine-hour visit to Xochimilco's Floating Gardens, encourages tourists to "admire the fresco paintings on the outside of the Secretary of Public Works...
Skipping lunch, he dashed on to open three kindergartens, 19 elementary schools and a trade school. In outlying Xochimilco, to the accompaniment of ancient church bells pealing across the town's Venice-like canals, he opened a flower market and a general market, chatted with pupils in a new elementary school. At sundown, his caravan headed back to Los Pinos and dinner. Ruiz Cortines was plainly weary but well pleased with the day's work: 41 dedications in nine hours and 25 minutes...