Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Awakening. There was no discernible disagreement with Johnson's decision, largely because Mann, in the course of a long career, has built a record of arriving early at right decisions. Born and raised in Laredo, a border town with a population 85% Mexican, Mann grew up bilingual and unbigoted; as halfback on Laredo High's unbeaten 1927 football team, he called signals in both English and Spanish. Giving up practice as what he calls "a Texas country lawyer" in 1943, he joined the State Department, serving over the years mostly in Latin American posts (Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador...
...money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted to terror. In San Juan Capistrano, Irwin stopped, put in a frantic call to his younger brother James, 41, a school purchasing agent, at his home in Imperial Beach, only twelve miles from the Mexican border. The two had not seen each other for several months. But now, said John, it was urgent that they talk privately...
Another sweeping promise of the Mexican revolution was agriculture-land for the landless and food for all. Yet half a century later, less than one-tenth of the country's acreage is under cultivation, much of it in the semi-arid north and much of that belonging to the controversial ejido collectives. Peasants are guaranteed a plot of land, but the farms are small, dry and often uneconomic, rarely exceeding twelve acres. Peasant families have trouble feeding themselves, to say nothing of providing food for a nation whose population grows by 3.5% annually...
...these colonies is in Campeche state, an almost virgin territory of well-watered savanna and jungle down near the Guatemalan border. Last week, after nine months of pioneering, the first 700 peasants of an estimated 20,000 were settling in at Campeche, and a whole new chapter in Mexican land reform was underway...
...with centaurs to a Napoleonic nécessaire-an elaborate Empire traveling case designed for Bonaparte's second wife, Marie Louise. By way of exotica, the Munich Schatzkammer has a brace of bejeweled Ceylonese chests, Persian daggers and Turkish scimitars, Ming porcelains set in Renaissance gold frames, a Mexican stone mask embellished by a German goldsmith after it got to Munich...