Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around 12:30 p.m. every Monday and Friday, an aging Cubana Airlines turboprop Britannia whistles to a halt at Mexico City's International Airport. Squads of police stand by. All passengers arriving without diplomatic or Mexican passports are photographed and questioned by immigration men. Sometimes the travelers grapple with the cameramen; they always dodge questions. "Why are you here? Where are you going?" ask the Mexicans. "None of your business," answer the secretive travelers. "Tourists," say the others blandly. Going to Cuba or coming, it is all perfectly legal, and they proceed on their...
...Poodles in Shorts. But no more so than her life offscreen. Born of a French father ("He's distantly related to Bach," says her pressagent) and Mexican mother ("a descendant of a conquistador'') in Hollywood, Yvette attended Catholic schools, studied for a year in Mexico City before settling down at Hollywood High School. She didn't get very far. For once upon a summer day, while horseback riding through the Hollywood Hills, she was startled to see a helicopter swoop down from the sky. Out stepped Pressagent Jim Byron ("that's spelled BYRON...
...many ways, the Mexican economy appears as hardy as a flowering desert cactus, a bright contrast to its hemisphere neighbors. For 1962, according to the Bank of Mexico. Latin America's thirdbiggest nation pushed its gross national product 4.2% higher than 1961; manufacturing output rose 5.2%, total investment was up 6%, and merchandise exports climbed 12.1%. Thus nourished, Mexico is fast developing a middle class...
Nowhere is the problem more pressing than in La Laguna. a 2,000-sq.-mi. farm belt in north central Mexico that is a sort of microcosm of the ills afflicting the Mexican farmer. For years, La Laguna was rich and productive, watered by late summer showers and the Nazas and Aguanaval rivers. More than half of the country's cotton came from the area. Then 15 years ago, the rains tailed off, the rivers began drying up, and the crops dwindled to half their former size. Now, over a year's time, ten times more water evaporates...
...fact that the building was on Manhattan's most convenient site-handy to the trains from Westchester and the Lexington Avenue subway, which would deposit employees right on the corporate doorstep. Among the tenants were U.S. corporations ranging from Aluminum to Vanadium, branch offices of Canadian, British, Italian, Mexican and Japanese companies. And, of course, Pan American World Airways, which has leased one-quarter...