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Illegal Line-Up. Dykes Simmons is the first American ever to be sentenced to death by a Mexican court. The crime for which he was condemned to face a firing squad occurred on the night of Oct. 12, 1959, after Simmons entered Mexico from Laredo, Texas, about 45 minutes behind a Monterrey dentist named Raúl Pérez Villagómez. Roughly 43 miles south of Laredo, the dentist's car broke down. Leaving his younger brother and two sisters behind, Villagómez went for help. When he got back to his car, his brother...
...started shooting when the youngsters giggled at his failure. He wore a white shirt and dark trousers, she said, had two gold teeth, and drove a blue 1958 Chevrolet with Texas plates. Mexican police immediately began a massive man hunt for all Americans who had crossed the border at Laredo on Oct. 12. In a dusty village 130 miles northwest of the murder scene, they picked up Simmons-and immediately freed him as the wrong...
...arrested at La Guardia Airport upon his return from Toronto, Canada, for failing to comply with a law which requires narcotics convicts to register with Customs. He was convicted last spring in Laredo, Texas, of transporting and concealing marijuana...
...uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...
...Laredo, Tex, judge sentences Leary to 30 years in prison and a $30,000 fine for transporting and failing to pay a tax on marijuana. He explains that state law requires him to impose the maximum sentense in order to commit Leary for 90 days of psychiatric examination. Leary plan an appeal, which his lawyer says will be based on freedom of religion, freedom to raise one's own family as one sees fit, and freedom to pursue scientific truth...