Word: gringo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer-were in the area to deliver a $15,000 check to finance two new schools. As they sat in the home of the Dutch manager of the Siglo Veinte mine, a twelve-ton Mercedes truck rumbled up, and out piled 60 miners. Waving Czech mausers and pistols, shouting "Gringo! Gringo!" they ourst into the house and hauled out the foreigners. By dawn, 17 hostages were prisoners in Siglo Veinte's union building. A radio message went out from the mines to the government in La Paz: the hostages in exchange for the two union leaders "or else." Lechin...
...buzz around in motor boats. Twelve deep-sea boats stand ready-at $30 to $50 a day-to bring in that trophy for the game room. The bungalow that rented for $30 a month brings as much as $250, and a one-bedroom house on the fashionable hillside called "Gringo Gulch" goes for at least $10,000-still a bargain by Acapulco standards. There is neon, a supermarket, a nightclub. The new Posada
...archaeological treasures or two weeks exploring a remote fishing village such as Puerto Vallarta (less than 1,000 rooms) on the West Coast. So popular is Puerto Vallarta now that the hotels are 90% full throughout the summer, and one part of town is popularly known as "Gringo Gulch...
Died. William O. Jenkins, 85, a little-known Tennessee-born gringo who quietly amassed a fortune upwards of $250 million in 62 years of fast dealing in Mexico; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. Traveling south in 1901 to start as a 500-a-day mechanic, Jenkins became a U.S. consular agent in Puebla, was kidnaped by bandits in 1920, and that proved to be his break; somehow he got his hands on part of the $25,000 ransom (at least the Mexican government, which paid the money, accused him of it), suddenly blossomed into a Prohibition bootlegger, then...
...library, where citizens can read magazines describing the U.S. as a "three-headed monster that thinks on Wall Street, roars in the Pentagon and brays in the White House." The state's biggest and noisiest newspaper, La Voz de Michoacán, shrills away in Cardenas' best gringo-baiting style. No wonder that last year, after a visit to Washington, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, spent 25 minutes with President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, then hopped down to Morelia for lengthy conferences with local Reds...