Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope to neighborhood." add Murmured something one to of your the neighbors, Mrs. Dan Sweeney, "My kids hope he'll teach them to play baseball." Three months out of jail, where he served four years for inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later-crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some...
...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Burdened with some of the fascinating ills that Tennessee Williams' characters are heir to, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton repair to a shabby Mexican resort for group therapy...
...ranch somewhere near León. Nosing around a ranch in the area two days later, the police chief accidentally stepped into some soft earth. To his horror, out popped a woman's arm-the first clue in one of the ugliest chains of crime in Mexican history...
From 14 to 25. Storming into the ranch house, police found 19 teen-aged girls, including the three for whom the search was started. They were prisoners in what Mexican newspapers called "a concentration camp for white slaves," complete with tiny cells and grisly torture devices. In the house, police arrested two notorious white slavers, Delfina González Valenzuela, 55, her sister María de Jesús, 40, and a handful of their helpers. A few weeks later police picked up a third sister, Eva. Further search at the ranch and at two brothels owned...
Last week, in a San Francisco del Rincón courtroom cleared of spectators to guard against attack, the three sisters were found guilty of first-degree murder, white slavery and assorted other crimes and sentenced to the maximum penalty under Mexican law: 40 years in prison...