Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sombreros off to Chaliapin's clever cover-piece of Mexican Eagle Ruiz Cortines beheading a rattled and appropriately A-shaped, S-mottled snake-in-the-GRAFT...
...slap the Mexican press when you say that it was too close to the game of Aleman and his cronies to chronicle much of it. Just what do you mean? That it was in jeopardy and therefore scared ? Shucks! Like yourself, the Mexican press isn't scared of anything this side of the grave . . . Probably the lack of the chronicles you miss is due simply to the fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter...
After last week's Monza, Ascari would ordinarily be ready for a full fall and winter season, including the Mexican road race this November. But so far, he has no plans. A month ago, Builder Ferrari announced that he is giving up racing cars, and Ascari is under contract to race for no one else. Most Italians took the news with a grain of salt. They don't think Enzo Ferrari will really give up his beloved racers, and they can't believe that anything will keep Alberto Ascari off the tracks for long...
Even on the scarred grey face of the Mexican countryside, tilled for more than a thousand years by pointed sticks, changes are visible. South of the Rio Grande near Matamoros grow great fields of cotton, where only mesquite flourished 15 years ago. In booming Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops...
Caught up in their careers like middle-class people the world over, these Mexicans are obviously not revolutionaries in the old Latin American sense. With their stake in society, they are rather a new bulwark against the succession of rebellions that kept Mexico on edge through much of its history. They are nevertheless the products of the great social upheaval that took the lives of some 1,500,000 Mexicans a generation or so ago. Until the Mexican revolution, the nation suffered from a form of split personality, oppressed or angered by the ever-present reminders of a high Indian...