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...Sacrifice. Last year, at the urging of Mexican archaeologists, President Adolfo López Mateos decided to disinter Teotihuacán and make it the cultural capstone of his administration. With a $1,320,000 grant from the government, Jorge Acosta, one of Mexico's top archaeologists, enlisted 550 laborers to start the picks and shovels working. Behind the diggers came a task force of 37 archaeologists and restorers, carefully gathering everything from stone dartheads to obsidian razor blades. By last week, after the months of excavation, even the most optimistic archaeologists realized that they had vastly underestimated...
...crowd of 500,000 welcomed Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos, 52, home from his twelve-day "goodwill journey" to Europe, the first official visit ever made by a Mexican President. On a five-nation swing "in the cause of peace," López Mateos adroitly balanced cordial visits to Yugoslavia and Poland with an abrazo for De Gaulle and a nice chat with old friends Prince Bernhard and Princess Irene of The Netherlands. West Berlin was on the agenda too, and there Mexico's "independent" foreign policy made sightseeing a drag. López Mateos...
...readers, as opposed to most Americans, should easily be able to pass a quiz identifying the nationality of such names as Rómulo Betancourt, João Goulart, François Duvalier, Jânio Quadros, Arturo Frondizi, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, López Mateos and Cantinflas...
...office, just ten days short of completing his six-year term. The country's new rulers are a brassbound junta of "four Presidents," headed by a cavalry general, Manuel Perez Godoy, 59, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and including General Nicolas Lindley López, 53, commander of Peru's army; Vice Admiral Juan Francisco Torres Matos, 56, boss of the navy; and General Pedro Vargas Prada, 49, chief of the air force. They struck only four months after a similar putsch in Argentina, with the military in both cases ending democracy because they...
...slight shift in the course of the Rio Grande, Mexican complaints that U.S. irrigation projects were making the upper Colorado River too salty for Mexican farmers. Kennedy had planned to bring up Mexico's adamant hands-off stand on Cuba if he got on well with López Mateos-and he did. But he did not press too hard. Castro and Cuba were not why he was in Mexico...