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...working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish eye. Alex, who has spent most of the movie trying to keep Maritza under both bond and bondage, decides that like other wild creatures - Jonathan Livingston Seagull, for instance - she must roam free. He encourages, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time to Bail Out | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Modest Proposal. Verolme has bought or built three shipyards in Holland and, expanding abroad in a pattern rare in the shipbuilding industry, three others in Ireland, Norway and Brazil. This week he arrives in Mexico to make final arrangements to build and operate a $60 million yard at Mazatlán that will construct tankers for Pemex, Mexico's national oil company. Verolme has also moved into manufacturing engines, textiles, electrical equipment, boilers and tanks. He now employs 10,000 people and has annual sales of between $90 and $130 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: I Did It All | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...much money this year. Arnulío Garcia stepped along with a pocketful of Querétaro's famed opals and his own private prayer on his lips: "Dear Virgin, May I have better luck selling my stones in Mexico City than I had on my trip to Mazatl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pilgrimage | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Said Stanza I: In Mazatlán, a tall man masked like the other dancers at fhe Carnival ball shot jovial Loaiza through the head. Two Americans were murdered when they tried to prevent the man's escape. Rodolfo Valdez, 28, known as El Gitano, took to the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Batopilas, Mexico, lies on a narrow shelf of land in a narrow valley in western Chihuahua, 350 miles south of El Paso, 300 miles north of Mazatlán. There, in the summer of 1880, five-year-old Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Patroncito | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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