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...Among America's serious composers, however, he pioneered the art of writing music for films with his scores for a pair of Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland's inspiration for several famous ballet scores, including Appalachian Spring...
...Carpenter Laredo, Texas...
Statue Painters. An increasing number of illegals have landed desirable jobs. According to Chapman, more than a third now employed are working in industry. Some Mexicans who have entered Texas illegally earn close to $5 an hour in small factories; one was even found managing a Laredo plastics plant at $20,000 a year. The INS'S files include reports of a Greek plumber earning $12 an hour, a Jamaican carpenter earning $7 an hour and a West Indian electronics engineer taking in $17,000 a year. An immigration raid on a Miami restaurant turned up 14 illegally entered...
Shortly after Perales left Nuevo Laredo's Federal Building in a borrowed car one evening in July, gunmen in a red Mustang pulled up alongside and shot him. Perales' replacement, who also has a contract out on him, is taking no chances. He is attended by a score of federal bodyguards. A special federal investigator looking into the killings sleeps across the border in Laredo, Texas...
Clean People. One prominent Nuevo Laredo citizen, rumored to be altogether too close to the gangs, is Francisco Javier Bernal López, a mustachioed attorney who used to make his living from the quickie-Mexican-divorce trade, which was stopped when the law was changed in 1970. Bernal denies that he is in fact El Padrino (the Godfather); "I don't have a gang," he told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich last week. "How am I going to order killings? My clients consult, but that is legal." His clients include the Reyes Pruneda family, whose forces are supplemented...