Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration policy but a forceful plea for one came from Robert McKinney, 45, able editor and publisher of the daily Santa Fe New Mexican (circ. 11,000). Last year McKinney headed the Citizens' Panel on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, whose report was followed by President Eisenhower's decision to make available 20,000 kilograms of fissionable material to overseas nations. This week McKinney came back to Washington, reported that Ike's initial step was dying from red tape and lack of know-how, and urged an equally bold followup. Said McKinney...
...works in a contraceptive factory run by an ex-abortionist. And near the end he becomes the fancy boy of the prostitute with the biggest heart of all. Jailed, then brutally beaten into blindness by his woman's former lover, he goes back home to Texas and a Mexican woman who had once admired his sexual precocity...
...ovation. The only reason the audience let the orchestra quit after three encores was that it was time for the bullfights. The New Orleans musicians had left their musical mark on 22 cities and towns from Lima to Ciudad Trujillo before turning homeward last week. Verdict of a leading Mexican critic: "You have conquered Mexico...
...captures the young doctor. Sharon Gans, playing the gossipy Mrs. Bassett, has a good deal of trouble with her accent, but this only brings out the humor in her part. Although the supporting males are generally ineffectual, at least they aren't often on stage. Patricia Guest, as the Mexican charmer Rosa Gonzales, is perfectly sensual, but unfortunately a little too sensual. For some reason, when confronted by the elder Dr. Buchanan she does a sort of serpentine sidle, the absurdity of which might have been foreseen by Director Judith Barker...
Hired by a Los Angeles engineering firm to hunt out new deposits in the southwestern U.S. and the Mexican desert, discouraged by his failure and waiting impatiently for a primping girl friend to meet him at the library, Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther idly thumbed his way through an old volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before...