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...deadline. When he pontificated polysyllabically over the loudspeaker system, Olivier cracked: "He uses such big words I can't understand him." Once Susskind was accidentally bumped by a prop pickup truck bearing the words VIVA LA REVOLUCION. "Caramba!" shouted the actor-driver. "I just got my first gringo." But in the end David Susskind had demonstrated again what even his most articulate enemies will readily concede: he is responsible for some of the best material that has ever reached the U.S. television screen...
...anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place to go to die. It is useless for M.D.s to assail this quackery. To the Mexican-American, the gringo doctor is the quack. "Just as the Anglo* goes to the folk curist only in the last stages of cancer when everything else has failed, the Latin American goes to the physician only after all else has failed," said Madsen. "He thinks as much of penicillin...
...Gringo is a term used by some Latin Americans, often in a derogatory sense, for U.S. citizens. About 12,000 live in Cuba...
...Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo with a superiority complex, a frivolous tourist...
From a wealthy gringo named Everett Sholes. who owns one of Cuernavaca's most sumptuous homes, they took a deposition that told of his illegal detention by state police on charges never specified. He had been threatened with deportation, confiscation of his property, and a ruthless investigation of his closest friends. At that point two other local Yanquis turned up at police headquarters-by coincidence, they claimed-and offered to square things without unpleasant notoriety. They did. at a cost of $20,000. "I asked my family in the U.S. to send me the money." said Sholes...