Word: mexican-american
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...study by anthropologists and sociologists. Last week, in Hidalgo's county seat of Edinburg, the researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight it-join it." To the incredulous M.D.s who heard the report, Study Director William Madsen, a University of Texas anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place to go to die. It is useless for M.D.s to assail this quackery. To the Mexican-American, the gringo doctor...
...Reported cases are believed to be only a fraction of the actual total; Kentucky Epidemiologist J. Clifford Todd estimates that there have been four victims in his state-with 1,628 cases, the nation's hardest hit-for every one reported. In Colorado's heavily Mexican-American counties along the Ar kansas River, the hepatitis rate is so high that the state's 1960 toll (903 cases) already is the worst in its history. Oregon has reported 950 cases...
...President's first stop of the week was carefully calculated to woo a political minority with whom Dick Nixon so far strikes few responsive chords: the big Mexican-American communities of Texas and California. At Del Rio, Texas, the President crossed the Rio Grande to pay a farewell call on his good friend, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos. Despite a steady drizzle, thousands jammed the plaza of Ciudad Acuña to hear Eisenhower proclaim the indestructible friendship of the two neighbors...
...fading. In Los Angeles County, with some 40% of the vote. Democrats are picking up great support from labor, oldsters (who like Kennedy's backing of Forand-type medical aid), tax-pinched young adults in the subdivisions (who like federal aid to education), and sizable Negro, Jewish and Mexican-American blocs, which may cut Nixon down to less than half of Ike's 1956 majority. San Francisco, 25% Catholic, is expected to return to Democratic column. Normally Republican San Diego County may come close to a standoff because of slackening production in the airframe industry. On the other...
...neighboring towns of Ganado and Edna near Houston. Purpose: to teach 400 words of basic English to 42 five-year-olds, all of whom spoke Spanish only. After 3½ months the "graduates" entered first grade in the town's public schools-where more than half the Mexican-American first-graders had failed the year before-and all passed with flying colors...