Word: manteca
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...middle-aged Latinas called the Sacramento hot line to complain that when they were picked up by police for jaywalking in Manteca, they were asked for residency papers. They were not carrying documentation, they said, although they were legal residents, and one of the policemen said to them, "We can send you back to Tijuana." When the women reacted angrily, they were hauled off to the county jail 15 miles away, released at 11 p.m. and told to walk home. A Manteca police spokesman said the two women were picked up for shoplifting and had volunteered that they were undocumented...
Although Paquito does some more Latin-type tunes, including Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca", the best--and best-performed--Latin tune on the album is "Samba for Carmen", which Paquito dedicated to jazz singer Carmen McRae, Drummer Portinho, late of Tania Maria, drives the whole thing as if he were still in the Rio de Janeiro samba school, Padre Miguel, and fellow Brazilian Claudio Roditi, who has the unenviable position of following Paquito in order of solos, still acquits himself quite well on trumpet...
...heels and slinkiest skirts, danced beneath a huge electric American flag, which blinked red, white and blue to Basie's beat. Meanwhile, Dizzy Gillespie, 60, was on hand at Avery Fisher Hall, with his mischievously cherubic grin, his horn angled rakishly at the sky to let fly with Manteca, one of his Latin favorites...
...Single Hobby. One of seven sons of a Saskatchewan General Motors dealer, Murphy-like most of his brothers-became an auto salesman while still in his teens. During the Depression he went broke selling Chevrolets in the farm town of Manteca, Calif., but bounced back as an Oldsmobile dealer in Honolulu. He made his first financial killing by stockpiling trucks just before the start of World War II, reselling them at a hefty profit. In 1963, he paid $3,800,000 to buy 90% control of the then-floundering Honolulu Iron Works Co., which makes sugar mills. By chopping...
...Kaiser Magnesium Co. this month reactivated the 20-million-lb.-a-year U.S. magnesium plant at Manteca, Calif...