Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most south Texas towns, Mexican Americans in Crystal City (pop. 10,000) outnumber Anglo-Americans roughly 4 to 1. But not until two years ago did they muster enough voting strength to elect their own people to local office. Then, a group called the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO) launched a get-out-the-vote drive, produced a winning slate of five Mexican American city councilmen. It was the first time that Anglos had not controlled the municipal administration, and it was hailed as a harbinger of change throughout south Texas politics...
...PASO councilmen, Manuel Maldonado, because he owed $2.98 in back city taxes. A court ruled he could not be fired. Three other councilmen resigned. By the time election rolled around last week Cornejo and Maldonado were the only two PASOs left-and they were hardly in public favor. Crystal Citizens therefore elected a five-man slate put up by the Anglo-organized Citizens' Association Serving All Americans (CASA...
...expressed desire to see peace returned to that part of the world are an attempt to place the blame for continued fighting on the National Liberation Front, Hanoi, and China: "Merely negative responses from the Communists--should Hanoi and Moscow follow Peking's lead--will only make crystal-clear where the responsibility lies for pushing Southeast Asia and all the world to the brink of the abyss." (New York Times editorial, April 9) But it is Johnson who is pushing the world to the brink of the abyss. Once Johnson has made credible his intention to devastate the North...
Candles for St. Sebastian. One digger came up with a block of crystal weighing 330 Ibs., is still dickering with buyers about the price: the high-grade yellow variety fetches as much as $94 per Ib. Another miner found a huge piece worth $3,300 and immediately hired 100 men at $3 apiece per day to help him dig. A youth deserted his job in Bahia, 400 miles away, found a fine stone that he sold for $190, later discovered that the buyer quickly resold it for more than $2,500. Luckier was the young lady who spent four days...
...five miles to the chapel in Cristalina to light a candle at the feet of St. Sebastian, praying that he would guide them to a rich strike. Many other amateurs, discouraged by the boomtown prices and the depth of the veins, were selling out. Said one: "God put the crystal near the surface, but the devil pushed it to the bottom." As the amateurs quit, professional mining outfits were moving in to buy up their claims and get down to where the devil pushed the crystal...