Word: palacios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running south. Six days later (with an assist from a truck) they chuffed into the capital to honor the grand inauguration of Mexico's new President, Adolfo López Mateos, 48. It was a ceremony worthy of the effort. The setting was Mexico City's famed Palacio de Bellas Artes, an Italianate pile of marble as remote from today's Mexico as an igloo, despite murals by the famed Big Four of Mexican art: Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco and Tamayo. As López Mateos entered, the 3,000 guests, including U.S. Secretary of State John Foster...
...close and lasting friendships. At college in Toluca, he was an ardent campus politician and belonged to the Socialist coalition, which at that time was the major opposition to the government's National Revolutionary Party, now the all-dominant Revolutionary Institutional Party (P.R.I.). In 1929 Colonel Carlos Riva Palacio, head of the government party, came to Toluca for a party convention, and López Mateos, as the town's leading orator, made the welcoming speech. Riva Palacio urged López Mateos to work for him as a secretary. López Mateos switched to the government...
Snap. In Fort Huachuca, Ariz., National Guard Sergeant Joseph J. Palacio dislocated his shoulder as he saluted an officer...
...fiery revolutionary generals who founded his party as modern Mexico's well-scrubbed Sears. Roebuck stores are from a battlefield commissary. An attorney, ópez Mateos moved up smoothly in the P.R.I.'s inner circle after going to work in 1930 as secretary to General Carlos Riva Palacio, then the party's titular head. As Labor Minister, López Mateos settled 13,382 disputes with only a handful of strikes. A hard worker, he took his smooth, noncommittal speeches and pleasant grin to 480 towns during a campaign that he could have won by staying home...
...kind of traveling art show that does the U.S. a lot of good abroad was a smash hit last week in Mexico City. Government officials, university professors, art lovers and artists trooped through the ornate white marble Palacio de las Bellas Artes to see what a fledgling U.S. collector had put together in a few years. The viewers saw a handsome survey of 57 paintings and six sculptures covering 180 years of U.S. art, from a serene John Singleton Copley portrait, Mrs. Roger Morris, finished in 1772, to first modern works by Watercolorists Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Painters Charles...