Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latest case in point is Escobedo v. Illinois. In 1960, Chicago police questioned a 20-year-old Mexican laborer named Danny Escobedo until he admitted complicity in his brother-in-law's slaying. The police never advised Danny of his right to remain silent; he was not allowed to consult his lawyer. Because the lawyer had previously told him not to talk, however, Danny's confession was ruled voluntary. He was sentenced to 20 years for first-degree murder. The state's highest court also saw the confession as voluntary, and refused to toss it out merely...
...glasses must have seemed rose-colored, because Producer Carlo Ponti, 52, has been granted French citizenship, and has carte blanche in France to marry her. He wed her before, but was forced to annul the marriage when their native Italy threatened bigamy proceedings; it does not recognize his 1957 Mexican divorce from his first wife. Carlo and Sophia celebrated with a tricolored cake, and Ponti displayed Gallic finesse when asked if they would remarry. "It is not excluded," said...
...Gallon Tragedian. Where Wyeth identifies with the countryside around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Maine, Hurd loves the desert. He lives without television, owns only riding boots, and eats tortillas by preference. A bilingual Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...
...article "More Sex on Campus" by Ted Alexander shares top coverbilling in Gent's October issue with "So you want to get a Mexican Divorce!" and is concerned almost exclusively with Harvard. ("So You Want to Get a Mexican Divorce!" is listed in Gent's "travel" department.) Alexander leads with the headline "If X is equal to Y--then why not?" then gets right down to business, seizing immediately on the famous slogan of our impulsive dean...
...broken valve cost him the German Grand Prix. A shaft snapped in Austria, a tire blew in the Indy 500, an oil line burst in the Mexican Grand Prix after Clark had led for 64 of the 65 laps. Britain's John Surtees won the 1964 Grand Prix championship; Clark finished third. To top it off, he got into a friendly snowball fight in the Italian Alps last month, twisted his back, and wound up with a slipped disc. The experts wondered: Was Clark washed...