Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noticed them as they came running arms linked," Mexican journalist Juan Miguel de Mora said, "in a way which reminded me of films that I have seen of Hitler's storm troopers.... These men didn't wear uniforms, but their paced run was very military.... I saw them hit with clubs and sticks the students running in all directions. Two or three were caught and savagely beaten...
...dozen men, some of them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed 40 people...
...brother were defendants in a civil suit stemming from a knife attack on one Jose Raya. Raya, whose lips were chopped off in the attack, won a $250,000 damage suit against Natividad, who fled the country before the judgment came down against him. No judgment was entered against Juan...
...breach in Juan's carefully erected defenses was the decline in his business brought about by increased farm mechanization. He recently applied for welfare benefits and was turned down, which acquaintances say thoroughly embittered him. Then there was the ar senal of weapons found in the Sullivan labor camp and Juan's 1971 Chevrolet van: two hunting knives, two butcher knives, a double-bladed ax, a club with possible bloodstains, pistol shells and a machete. Police also discovered empty graves that had apparently been prepared but left unfilled...
...foaled in 1945; Cañonero was one of 22,911 born in 1968-and a most unimpressive one at that. Indeed it is not so much the rarity of a Triple Crown contender but the ragamuffin-to-riches rise that has made Cañonero, as his trainer Juan Arias says, the "champion of the people...