Word: mexican-american
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...film of towering significance, it attempts little more than a skin-deep approach to its grim subjects, holds itself well within the limits of melodramatic action. In a California fruit-growing town, a Mexican-American youth (Lalo Rios) innocently gets into trouble with the police. While he flees in fear, more serious charges pile up against him, inflaming the town's prejudice against its underprivileged Latin colony...
...local newspaper editor (Macdonald Carey), a newcomer seeking an ivory tower after a stormy career as a foreign correspondent, is reluctant to mix in political controversy. But as his conscience is needled by a reporter (Gail Russell) for a Mexican-American weekly, he saves the youth's life during a manhunt, begins to crusade for him, and narrowly averts a lynching at the town jail...
...Mexican-American boys in zoot suits who are attacked by club-swinging sailors the night before they are to join the Army...
...having their daughters come home with egg in their hair. Principal T. Guy Rogers of the Thomas Jefferson High School had another complaint: "We have had athletes who are not willing to play with non-fraternity boys." Other principals complained of snobbery: most fraternities wouldn't take in Mexican-American students...
...Like a Bullfight." Parker, twice national champion (1944 and 1945) and runner-up last year to Jake Kramer, played his aloof, passionless way into the quarter-finals without dropping a set. Then he encountered Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 20, the easygoing, hard-hitting Mexican-American from Los Angeles (TIME, May 19,1947), who was only No. 17 in the national ranking...