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...ring in the first round of his rematch with Mexico's Caspar Ortega, former Welterweight Champion Tony DeMarco came back to trade wallops for nine more rounds in one of the most furious fights in years. But DeMarco couldn't quite stop the long-armed Mexicali Indian, lost to him for the second time in a month on a split decision even closer than the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...sand dunes, Kenneth Marcle dutifully hitchhiked into town for help, returned to find his Chevrolet and bride gone, next morning located his wife in nearby Date City, where she explained that a "nice man" had come along, pushed the car out of the sand and taken her to Mexicali, Mexico for an evening "doing the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Revealed. Ethel Merman, 44, trumpet-voiced songstress of stage & screen (Call Me Madam); and Robert Forman Six, 45, oilman president of Continental Air Lines; he for the second time, she for the third (her second marriage, to American Weekly Publisher Robert D. Levitt, ended in divorce last year); in Mexicali, Mexico, on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...come from all over Mexico, up the highways and the railroads, on foot under the burning sun. Drawn by the hope of the Yankee dollar, they swarmed to the border by the tens of faceless thousands. They milled briefly amid slinking dogs and neon-lighted stench of Mexicali, and then streamed, furtively and endlessly across the border into California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Wetbacks | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Mexicali Ruse. In any case, as the committee knew beforehand, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor anybody else on its "prominent persons" list had actually been of any help to Eisler. He got into the U.S. late in 1939 on a visa obtained from a "sleepy" consul at Mexicali, Mexico. The consul, Wyllis Myers, whom the committee did not bother to subpoena, issued the visa without bothering to check his files on Eisler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Brother Hanns | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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