Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th. Ivory drums, carved canoe prows and paddles, dance shields and other ob jects from the Massim region of New Guinea. Also 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through...
...began the long-heralded Mexican visit of le grand Charles, to be followed this fall by a tour of possibly ten other Latin American countries. For those who felt that De Gaulle's primary aim was simply to play on latent anti-U.S. feelings throughout Latin America, the two leaders had quick reassurance. What Mexico seeks, said López Mateos at the airport, "is an alliance that is informal and without protocol and against no one." On Mexico's insistence, De Gaulle agreed in advance not to bait...
Next year, visiting professors from Latin America will include Villa Rogas, a Mexican expert on Mayan Indians, and Orlando Fars Borda, a Colombian sociologist, in the fall, and Rodriguez Monegal, a Brazilian expert on comparative literature, in the spring...
...natural progesterone secreted in women's glands is not very potent when taken by mouth. But since 1951, laboratory experts have been making chemically related substances, now known as progestins, from such unlikely raw materials as the root of the Mexican giant yam. Some of these synthetics are far more potent than natural progesterone-at least for preventing ovulation. The two best known are norethynodrel, the main ingredient in Enovid, and norethindrone, used in the other contraceptive pills now marketed in the U.S. and by various manufacturers around the world...
...offer, and companies are attracted to catalogue selling by the saving in inventory, rent and labor costs. A company expects to glean an average of $35 in sales from each big book, which costs $2 to produce and may contain as many as 140,000 items-from a Mexican burro to the 1928 Model A Ford parts still offered by Sears...