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...Guatemala-700 miles-in 36 days. He went on to cover a lot of ground as Mexico's 59th President. Last week, in his sixth-and final-state-of-the-nation address before surrendering his sash of office to Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in December. López Mateos trotted through the impressive record. It took almost three hours, and most of the speech dealt with Mexico's booming prosperity which has become the marvel of other envious Latin American governments...
...into everything from petrochemicals to textiles and electronics, has made Mexico self-sufficient in steel and oil, and this year is expected to turn out 80,000 cars and trucks. Tourism, which brought in $463 million in 1963, is up more than 10% so far this year. LÓpez Mateos predicted that the year to come will be better still-and no one was prepared to doubt...
...FEDERAL SPENDING. The national budget during López Mateos' term has risen 132% over the previous six years to a record $5.2 billion. Education now gets $362 million annually, three times as much as in 1958. Teacher salaries have gone up as much as 160%, 30,200 new classrooms have been built, and more than 100 million free textbooks have been distributed. Result: Mexico's illiteracy rate has dropped from...
...blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed 5-ft. 9-in. President Adolfo López Mateos on both cheeks. The crowd roared its delight...
...followed this fall by a tour of possibly ten other Latin American countries. For those who felt that De Gaulle's primary aim was simply to play on latent anti-U.S. feelings throughout Latin America, the two leaders had quick reassurance. What Mexico seeks, said López Mateos at the airport, "is an alliance that is informal and without protocol and against no one." On Mexico's insistence, De Gaulle agreed in advance not to bait...