Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pseudo Pachuco. His mastery of border Spanish and his ability to imitate a Mexican pachuco (zoot-suiter) led him into a career as an undercover agent. As such, he worked all over the U.S., and at one point fought his way out of a nest of six knife-wielding junkies...
...dotted town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the Guatemalan border, 97 carefully tuned automobiles set off last week on the first northward lap of the second Pan-American stock-car race, a five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster dips and erratic paving...
Though the Mexican attitude toward bloodshed and danger is traditionally stoic, the deaths of two well-known Mexican sportsmen in the first two days of the race brought some reactions of horror and indignation. A government official publicly branded the race "an imitation of North American customs not suited to Mexican characteristics." The press went off on a crusade. Mexico City's El Universal declared that permitting such dangerous shenanigans was a "crime...
...miles at an average speed of 88.2 m.p.h., 9.8 m.p.h. faster than McGriff's 1950 mark. Runnerup was Alberto Ascari, Italy's champion racer. Seven minutes and 50 seconds behind Ascari, according to the official clocking, was William Sterling of El Paso, in a Chrysler. The top Mexican came in ninth...
When a Frankfurt-New York plane put down at La Guardia Field, reporters greeted Barbara Hutton with a bit of good news: a Paris court had just granted her a French divorce from fourth husband Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, supplementing her short-order Mexican decree of last summer...