Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rancher Joe S. Chavez was above such superstitions and the poor Mexicans who believed in them. Joe was big, tough, and handsome. After he married beautiful Josefina Puebla back in 1929, she inherited a ranch near the Superstition Mountains. Joe raised white-faced cattle. Joe leased section after section of Government grazing land. Joe prospered. But ten years ago a dreadful thing happened to his wife. She began going blind, suffering from trancelike spells, and complaining that her head was swelling up like a balloon...
Then one day Maria Miranda-for it was Maria herself, as it turned out, who had cursed Josefina-sneaked into Chavez' house, shrieked at Josefina: "You will never see again!" and fled. Next morning Joe's wife was blind again. Fruitlessly, Joe took her to witches in Tucson, in Nogales, in Pitiquito, in Sonora and Cavorca, Mexico. Finally Joe went humbly to Maria herself; in her flyblown parlor, with its green altar and its saints' pictures (some laid face down with coins placed against their lips to protect Maria's clients from gossip), Joe begged...
...Dennis Chavez beat Pat Hurley...
...official count in New Mexico put Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez 5,071 votes ahead of Republican Patrick J. Hurley, who was still demanding a recount...
...McFarland, and Michigan Representative Charles E. Potter, who unseated Senator Blair Moody. In some states, the Eisenhower landslide failed to pull in strong Republican candidates. In New Mexico, Ike almost tugged Pat Hurley (Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover) across the line, but Hurley finally lost to Senator Dennis Chavez in a race so close that it is being challenged...