Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors and publishers are quick to defend freedom of the press. Last week, in New Mexico, it looked as if all publishers do not practice what they preach. For writing a story that offended members of the parole board, Reporter Dan Byrne of Sante Fe's daily New Mexican was ordered excluded from future board meetings. The decision was handed down by Acting Board Chairman Lincoln O'Brien, owner of four New Mexico dailies (but not the New Mexican) and president of the state press association...
...Mexican's Editor Joe Lawler asked for O'Brien's resignation from the press association post. Scolded Lawler: "Your stated belief seems incompatible with the historic philosophy of the press association on freedom of information...
Ultimate Challenge. Perhaps the most striking single transformation wrought by the boom has taken place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...
There, on a production line neat as the works of a watch, 1,000 workers assemble diesel trucks and little Fiat cars. Another factory builds boxcars for Mexican railways, employs 228 men. The third is a $4,000,000 made-in-Japan factory that last week started producing the first made-in-Mexico textile manufacturing machinery. Financed mostly by Tokyo's Toyoda Mills, it is run by Japanese engineers, employs 800 Mexicans whose highest skill until lately was making mescal...
...Lloyd C. Douglas story the suffering was zoned; it took place only in the very best shruburbs. In the Sartre resartion, Agony Alley is the main drag of an abominably filthy Mexican village. There, stretched flat on the floor boards of a squalid second-class bus, a European traveler (Andre Toffel) is dying of cerebrospinal meningitis. His wife (Michele Morgan) rushes out to look for the local doctor, but all she finds is a wambling wreck (Gerard Philipe) who has not dared to push a pill since his wife died in a childbirth he drunkenly mismanaged...