Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central square of Crystal City stands a statue of Popeye, a symbol of the town's claim that it is "the spinach capital of the world." Otherwise, Crystal City (pop. 10,000) is like a lot of other farm towns in South Texas. Mexican-Americans outnumber Anglo-Americans four to one, but the Anglos run the place...
Last week, with Texas Rangers standing by to keep order, hundreds of Crystal City Mexicans gathered round the statue of Popeye. It was election day in Crystal City, and a revolt was under way. One by one, Mexicans crossed the square and lined up at city hall to vote, many for the first time in their lives. When the votes were counted, Mexican candidates had captured all five seats on the city council. And control of the council gave the Mexicans control of the town government, with authority to appoint the mayor, the marshal, and other officers...
...Crystal Night...
...Crystal Night...
...note: The CRIMSON'S 1906 crystal ball told us that Mr. Price would be graduated magna cum laude the following year; would later write, among many other books, "The Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" and serve for many years as a member of the Overseers' Committee to visit the Department of Philosophy; and would in 1964 complete fifty years as editorialist for the Boston Globe and fifty-seven years as a Boston journalist...