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Word: lagunilla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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First stop was before the four dramatic new buildings replacing the squalid hodgepodge of the capital's old Lagunilla Market. Starting strong, Ruiz Cortines came smiling through a confetti shower, visited each of the buildings, with a mariachi band blaring along behind. The President took a quick look at three other markets, sped through the city to dedicate a four-lane freeway crossing the city, flitted through the gleaming new laboratories of police headquarters, took an approving brief glance at the new dormitories and gymnasium of the fire-department annex, popped over to the new penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Presidential Marathon | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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