Word: mexicali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alkaline land that it is "poisoned with U.S. salt." Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the Colorado for irrigation purposes, and guaranteed Mexico 1,500,000 acre-feet of water each year. Mexico built a dam, dug irrigation canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado...
...tons of seed a day). What's more, each hunter spends $30 a day, and to egg him on, the local innkeepers and Chambers of Commerce provide "dove festivals" in every little town. There are entertainments,*free dances, trapshooting contests, and the various across-the-border delights of Mexicali, including a "Valencia" pigeon shoot, in which a thrower hurls a live bird into the air while the hunter, as though skeet-shooting, draws a quick bead and fires; the bird wins if it can make it out of a marked circle...
...vice has prospered in the Mexican border towns, and today it is flourishing as never before. Of the estimated $700 million that visitors spent last year in making tourism Mexico's top industry, all but a couple of million was expended in such sleazy border towns as Mexicali, Matamoros, Ciudad Juárez and-liveliest of them all-Tijuana...
...rooms, 21 stories, and looks compact enough to be stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street is a welcome change from Manhattan's orange-crate rectangularity, but the sea-green color of that wall mocks the eye. In the lobby and other interior areas, the combination of good materials -plastics, woods, ceramics...
...Calexico, a door-to-door check was in progress to make sure that every dog or cat was vaccinated against rabies. In Mexicali. health officers opened vaccination clinics for dogs, got 5.000 vaccine doses from the Pan American Health Organization. It looked like too little, too late; more than 600 residents had been bitten, of whom 425 had taken shots. Casualty reports were feared daily. Even the intensive efforts north of the border mir;ht not be enough. Said Calexico's City Health Officer Al Brooks: ''If we get by without a few people dying from rabies...