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Just as if he were really in a contest, Presidential Candidate Adolfo López Mateos rolled through Mexico City this week at the head of a giant parade of gaily decorated floats and charros (cowboys) on prancing horses. As they have since 1946, Mexicans will go to the polls next week and-barring an upset more sensational than Harry Truman's-elect the candidate of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) to a six-year term...
Former Labor Minister López Mateos, 48, was hand-picked for his job by the inner circle of P.R.I. politicians, and he has used the campaign mostly as a chance to show his face to the people in all 29 states. Crowds have been well-ordered and speeches safe: "Every Mexican has the right to enjoy the liberty created by our heroes." But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired López Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count. Like his predecessor, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he will...
...Luis Héctor Alvarez of the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.) has campaigned earnestly for cleaner government-and got nowhere. He has been heckled in the hinterlands and relegated to newspaper back pages. As for the Communist Party candidate, an ancient lawyer named Miguel Mendoza López, few Mexicans even knew where he was last week. The campaign has been historically quiet; only one P.A.N. worker has been killed...
...same mold as the assassin who last September killed Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But Castillo's friends moved quickly to head off any Red comeback. His wife, outwardly calm, ran straight from the murder scene to call Vice President Luis Arturo González López. At a dawn emergency session, Congress named affable Lawyer-Landowner Arturo González López provisional president to serve until elections are held within four months...
Second Rank. Behind these three is another trio, still not counted out. Adolfo López Mateos, 47, is the handsome Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, is on close terms with Ruiz Cortines, Cardenas and Aleman, but many politicians feel he should wait for 1964. Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores, 48, has masterminded Mexico's phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting...