Word: mexi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Learned with Hornets. Now Edmun-Campello, secretary of agriculture for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has begun a new campaign. Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups. Wherever he can find a hive, he plans to kill the African queen and replace her with an already fertilized Italian. When new Italian queens, workers and drones are born more Africans will be replaced until, Campello hopes, the bad bees will be bred out of Brazil...
bawled the fight fans in the tiny Mexi can town. It was 1941, and the skinny, 21 -year-old American college boy calling himself "Chopper" Hood slugged away at his Mexican opponent. "After a little while," recalls the Chopper, "I realized that what they were yelling was 'Kill the Yankee!' " Thus, if somewhat inauspiciously, began Gringo Hood's longtime friendship with Latin America...
More and more retired U.S. citizens are discovering a bargain dolce vita across the Rio Grande. And the Mexi can government is doing its best to help the process of discovery. This month speakers from the National Council of Tourism, headed by ex-president Miguel Aleman, are campaigning throughout North America to build up Mexico's industria de los viejitos-the oldster industry-which the council estimates would be worth $400 million a year if Mexico could attract only 1% of the annual retirees in the U.S. and Canada...
...cried a Federal Aviation Agency official. "A Pan Am out of Mexico City. We'll call you back as soon as we have the details.'' Five calls to the President on that day last week fleshed out the details: four minutes out of Mexi co City, while southbound for Guatemala City with 81 aboard, a four-jet Pan American World Airways DC-8 had been "skyjacked" by a lone gunman and ordered to turn course for Cuba...