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Nuestro (Ours) is the brainchild of Graphics Executive Daniel Lopez, 36. For nine years, he dreamed of creating a journal that would give voice to the "common joys, agonies and aspirations" of the 12 million Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Chicanos now living in the U.S. The son of a Mexican-born Chicago steelworker, Lopez won a scholarship to the University of Chicago, did graduate work at George Washington University, and spent 13 years as an ad salesman, printing executive and manager for a graphics firm. In 1972 he launched an embryo magazine company-initial assets...
Police had first suspected Corona, a Mexican-born farm-labor contractor, when his name appeared on market receipts that were discovered in two of the crude graves that yielded up hacked and bludgeoned bodies near Yuba City, Calif. Two butcher knives, a machete, a pistol, a Levi's jacket and a pair of shorts were all found with bloodstains in various places used by Corona. A key piece of evidence, said the prosecution, was a ledger in his garage with the names of seven of the victims in it. But none of the blood was ever linked...
Died. José Limón, 64, one of the creators of the American modern dance; of cancer; in Flemington, N.J. Mexican-born Limón turned from painting to the dance in 1928, beginning a lifelong association with the pioneer teacher and choreographer Doris Humphrey. Under her guidance Limón began choreographing his own dances, but by the late 1940s had his own group, and with Mentor Humphrey as artistic director, polished his austere, flowing style. His major works include Missa Brevis and Emperor Jones. He is best remembered for The Moor's Pavane, created...
Police arrested a Mexican-born farm-labor contractor named Juan Corona, 37, married and the father of four daughters, but they were by no means sure that they had come to the end of the trail of bodies. They evidently discovered some of the corpses by checking out X marks on a crude map found in Corona's Bible. "I don't know where it's going to stop," said Sutter County Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. "We'll keep digging until we quit finding bodies." That could take some time. In Tehama County, 70 miles...
...screen he had almost as much clout. It is axiomatic that in order to be a conservative, the individual has to have something to conserve. Wayne had made more money on horseback than Eddie Arcaro. He had property, a big rep and a new wife, Mexican-born Actress Esperanza Baur. He was Hollywood's super-American, whose unswerving motto was "Go West and turn right...