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Universal Institute of Mortuary Directors Las Cruces, N. Mex...
...have to democratize business," said Harvard-educated Gaston Azcarraga, 35, as he announced a $1,600,000 sale of stock in Fabricas Auto-Mex, which is 55% owned by his wealthy family and 33% by Chrysler, whose cars and trucks it assembles in Mexico. The sale fulfills government directives to spread ownership and to increase the "local content" of autos assembled in Mexico. Auto-Mex (15,308 vehicles a year) will use the money it takes in to build a $15 million engine plant at Toluca, 40 miles from Mexico City, from which Chryslers 60% made in Mexico will eventually...
...days, out-of-state cars had been rolling into Santa Fe, N. Mex. Director John Crosby of the Santa Fe Opera had been preparing for them for three years while he played "the chess game of getting my men into position on the board...
...when the first controlled atomic chain reaction was achieved by Enrico Fermi and his associates in the celebrated squash court beneath the grandstand of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 from a steel tower at Alamagordo, N. Mex...
Audacious Horse Trading. Still, there is a hard streak of practicality in Conrad Hilton. The son of a successful merchant in San Antonio, N. Mex., he put down his entire savings of $5,000 in 1919 to buy his first hotel, the bustling Mobley in oil-rich Cisco, Texas. He managed to put together a small chain in Texas before the Depression wiped him out, bounced back with shrewd and often audacious horse trading to collect a lineup of prestigious hotels. His first major move was to acquire the high-priced Town House in Los Angeles, but he really broke...