Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remain one of architecture's more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly propagandistic for Communism (as in the case of the destroyed apotheosis of Lenin painted for Manhattan's RCA Building), they are enormously revealing at best-of peasant aspirations, Mexican heroes of history, the vigorous shapes and colors of the Mexican countryside...
...rich Mexican revolutionary, Rivera liked to deny his aristocratic beginnings and Spanish blood. "I am one-third Indian, one-third Jew and one-third nobody knows-probably Chinese," he liked to say, with a fine disregard of the arithmetic of genealogy. As a student he worked in Paris along the lines suggested by his friends Picasso and Braque...
ACROSS the North American continent from the edge of the polar icecap to the Mexican border lies a vast and wondrously intricate system of aerial defenses. Built over a period of nine years at a cost of more than $18 billion, based upon radar networks within networks electronically tied to the most modern systems of detection and interception (see color pages), it was never considered foolproof against penetration. A defense in depth, it was designed to-and will-limit to a minimum the breakthroughs of Soviet long-range bombers coming to pour nuclear destruction...
Mortgage & Fiat. As Labor Minister Lopez Mateos often worked a seven-day week. His. ministry handled 13,382 labor disputes; only 13 developed into strikes. Both labor and management call him a square shooter, approve his candidacy. He also helped write the successful Mexican-U.S. agreement on control of border-jumping "wetbacks," and might well express his admiration for Mexico's northern neighbor were it not that by local tradition such sentiments are political suicide...
Raul ("Little Mouse") Macias was obviously among friends. Every Mexican who could make it was in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week screaming for Macias to murder that little Frenchman in the other corner. But French Bantamweight Alphonse Halimi couldn't understand a word-and couldn't care less. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria's Constantine, Alphonse learned long ago that the guy with the busted bottle, the quick pocketknife or the padded fists, is the only enemy...