Word: cortez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes...
...Hernando Cortez. conqueror of Mexico, never visited Panama...
...Grande. Cut off and dried, its top forms a bitter-tasting "button" that, eaten or brewed as tea, is capable of strong and strange effects upon the mind. Just what the effects are has not yet been scientifically determined.* The Indians have known about peyote for centuries; Cortez' men found the Aztecs using it when they invaded Mexico. It has always been associated with religious ceremony...
...heart is Mollie, a trig little blonde with "small and perfect . . . breasts . . . out of a sweet period of Greek art." She lives among the "beach bums," the has-beens and would-be's of Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's "protege" in a sun-decked beach house on Cortez Beach ("better than Malibu"). Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like a stomach full of broken glass." When words fail...
...back on guesses, suspicions and plain washroom rumors. They cruised around picking up hitchhiking G.I.s ("the floating interview") or collaring construction workers in bars. Some crawled to the conclusion that the first blast was a fizzle, because of the facial expressions of scientists returning to Las Vegas' El Cortez Hotel. The few and scanty press releases given out by public-relations officers were virtually useless. One picture showed G.I.s in the area unloading cans of fruit cocktail...