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Some villagers had not seen a priest for years. At tiny Tesciguot, 40 men on mules trotted out to meet Father José Maria López, firing their pistols into the air and shouting, "Viva la Iglesia Católica! Viva Jesucristo!" In mass ceremonies, the padre married 240 couples within three hours, aided by the government's special dispensation of the $12 license fee. Bathing in rivers, living on tortillas and beans, Father Jorge Toruno visited 17 towns, spoke to 30,000 people and married 1,139 couples, two-thirds of whom had never been to confession...
...Mexican voices deplore journalistic corruption, sometimes with mild effect. Some reporters and editors are scrupulously honest. Mexican President López Mateos, who personally endorsed the Reporters Union's announced cleanup campaign, also ordered a cut in government handouts to reporters. But none of the solutions proposed-more pay, stringent rules of conduct for reporters-are steadfastly based in the simple, workable journalistic premise that truth pays...
...railroad workers one night last week. Troops guarded stations, and the government-owned railways sent out a call for strikebreakers to man the trains. After two tries at dealing with Demetrio Vallejo, 45, the brash, baby-faced new leader of the Railway Workers Union, President Adolfo López Mateos set out to crush...
...have gone up only about half that much. The rank and file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
Once, before their final business meeting, Eisenhower and López Mateos strolled onto a hotel lawn where they were scheduled to meet informally with the hundreds of newsmen who were covering the trip. Somehow the stroll turned into a melee, as photographers and reporters milled in confusion all over the place, tripping, crowding, shoving...