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National Geographic : 1964 Dec
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nursing the baby she carried in her rebozo. One of the great recent improvements that Inside, I met Dr. Maximino Barrios Araujo, Dr. Barrios urged me to see is the Instituto director of the center, an intense man in his Mexicano del Seguro Social. This is a mag forties, with snapping dark eyes. nificently equipped and cheerfully designed "Too many people, that's the root of our hospital and social center, inaugurated four problem," he told me. "Acapulco last year had months before my arrival. The institute gives 39 more births than deaths for each 1,000 free medical treatment, vocational instruc inhabitants. That's more than three times the tion, and recreation facilities to all those eligi rate in your country. On top of that, rural ble for Social Security. people pour in to work in the tourist industry. I heard of another kind of progress when We are faced with problems of overcrowding I dropped in on Acapulco's municipal presi -h igh cost of living, health hazards, food dent, Dr. Ricardo Morlet Sutter. He is a medi shortages. It all tells. In your country, a child cal doctor too, of an age with Dr. Barrios, but born today can expect to live 70 years; here as gay as his fellow doctor is grave. His great - only 53 years." grandfather was John A. Sutter, at whose Though Dr. Barrios rarely smiled, now he California mill gold was discovered, starting did. "But that figure is increasing, and life is the forty-niners on the gold rush. improving here. We must not forget that." Dr. Morlet's current enthusiasm was a new Seafood extravaganza at Las Brisas Hotel features olive studded sierra, a plentiful local fish. surrounded by plump red shrimp. Pink-and-white Jeeps take guests to the hotel's luxurious cliffside bungalows, complete with private pools. 858
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