Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving Mexico 630 acres of U.S. territory [July 26]; it is returning Mexican territory to Mexico. Our great President Don Adolfo Lopez Mateos also was as just as your great President in not charging the U.S. back rent from 1911, the year that international arbitration declared in our favor. We are definitely more than good neighbors...
Mexico has never forgiven the U.S. for a little piece of Yanqui land chiseling. Back in the mid-1800s, the unpredictable course of the Rio Grande shifted southward at El Paso, leaving a 600-acre wedge of flat, sandy Mexican land stranded on the Texas side (see map). Mexico still claimed the land, known as El Chamizal, but the U.S. said no: the border runs where the Rio Grande runs. In 1911, the angry Chamizal dispute was put to international arbitration. The arbitrators sided with
Under the terms of the accord, the U.S. will give Mexico 630 acres of U.S. territory, and will receive in turn a desolate 193-acre chunk of Cordova Island, a Mexico-owned enclave on the El Paso side of the river. As soon as the U.S. and Mexican Senates ratify the agreement-probably late this year-the U.S. will make plans to reimburse Chamizal property owners and relocate the area's 3,750 residents. Railroads that run through El Chamizal will be rerouted farther north. The U.S. and Mexico will then split the expenses of building six new bridges...
Scratching Mice. Partch grew up on the Mexican border, where his father, an ex-missionary who thought of himself as an "aggressive atheist," had gone to work for the Immigration Service. By the time he was 22, Harry had composed a scholastically pleasing string quartet, a symphonic poem and a piano concerto, but he set fire to them all a few years later when he was struck by the revelation that the spaces between the keys hold more fascination than the keys themselves. Eventually he arrived at a 43-tone octave and brought the good news to the Irish poet...
Died. Pedro Armendariz, 51, lusty Mexican he-man heavy in innumerable Hollywood westerns (Fort Apache), best remembered for his portrayal of a bedeviled fisherman in the 1948 Mexican masterpiece, The Pearl; by his own hand (.357 Magnum Colt revolver); in Los Angeles, Calif...