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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down a good highway, 67 miles south of Tijuana, Ensenada (pop. 35,000) closes Baja California's boom triangle. Shucking off the mañana tradition, Ensenada laborers are working seven days a week to finish a $15 million deepwater port, a $3,500,000 cement factory and acres of new houses. Close to 4,000 workers are employed catching, cleaning and canning plentiful white sea bass, sardines, rock lobsters. A new cannery packs tomatoes and chili peppers grown on farms to the south. White-painted boats chug in and out of the harbor, carrying the guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Green Stain of Prosperity | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Home Is the Sailor. In Ensenada, Mexico, three crewmen of the American fishing boat Sportsman were taken into custody by the Mexican coast guard after Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Married. Archie Lee Moore, 42, mustached, jazz-playing light heavyweight champion, top heavyweight contender (since the retirement of Rocky Marciano, who flattened him in 1955) and part-time Model Joan Hardy, 24; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Ensenada, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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