Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines cracks down on one after another of the political millionaires who grew fat under the last administration, Mexicans are beginning to sound off publicly against the excesses of ex-President Miguel Alemán's regime. Last week Justice Luis Corona and four other members of the supreme court were hearing arguments in the appeal of four men convicted in 1950 of the murder of a newsman. The defendants offered evidence that they had been framed by top officials working with the Alemán-created Federal Security Police, an outfit said to have been...
...manages to make her seem drab, and a basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow who uses vino as a gargle. This bandit has a lieutenant, a handsome, brave, wooden-faced desperado (Robert Taylor). Gardner takes one look at Taylor and her earrings start aquivering...
Like many a researcher before him (including the late great Havelock Ellis), British Psychiatrist John Smythies was fascinated by the extraordinary visions he had after taking mescaline, an alkaloid derived from a Mexican cactus.* Unlike opium and other drugs, which bring on hallucinations, mescaline seems to leave the power of critical observation intact. And what the subject sees, says Dr. Smythies after comparing notes with his friends, are visions of "the utmost poetical integrity...
...sword borrowed from an admiral especially invited for that purpose. Then dancing began. Martha swayed out a stately tune with Korean Ambassador Dr. You Chan Yang. The orchestra switched to It's a Great Day for the Irish, and Yang and Martha finished by stamping out the Mexican hat dance (Yang has been moving in U.N. circles a lot lately...
...name given her as a baby by her family's cook, who said: "Lawd, she's as purty as a little lady-bird." -The election produced a favorite political story in Texas which tells about a Mexican-American who found his friend Paco sitting on a curbstone, weeping: Friend: What troubles thee, Paco? Paco: My old father was here Saturday, and he did not come...