Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started a year ago, when a group of San Diego flyers were on their way back from a vacation in Baja California, the long, arid Mexican peninsula that runs 800 miles south of the California border. A sudden dust storm forced their light plane down at El Rosario, a poverty-stricken fishing village of 600 people near the Pacific Coast. The Mexicans gave the stranded flyers shelter-which was all they had to give. The grateful Americans returned a few weeks later with food, clothing and toys. Dr. Dale Hoyt took his medical bag along. Hearing that there...
...strong opinions about him. U.S. Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel calls him "the world's greatest theologian." Many conservative churchmen, on the other hand, view Rahner's work with suspicion and hostility. Three weeks ago, Monsignor Francesco Spadafora of Rome's Lateran University told a gathering of Mexican bishops that Rahner was a "formal heretic." Cardinal Ottaviani, too, suspects Rahner. has tried three times to get Rahner's work formally condemned, and last month vainly asked Pope John to send Rahner back to Innsbruck...
...four days Mexican Ambassador Octavio Paz scrambled around frantically trying to find hotel rooms (all the big hotels were full), a place to practice, and, above all, transportation to Madras...
Small Hello. Having whipped the U.S., Yugoslavia and Sweden to gain the interzone finals against India, the Mexican team arrived at New Delhi's Palam airport expecting the usual amenities. But not an Indian appeared to meet them. When the Mexicans finally made contact with the Indian Lawn Tennis Association, they got a small hello. Right up to the time they left home, the Mexicans imagined that the matches would be played in cool, dry New" Delhi, as originally scheduled. But then the Indians switched to steamy Madras, 1,000 miles to the southeast, where their own players...
...scooting catlike around a backhand to take it on his forehand. Krishnan carried the match to five sets, got a breather when the match was interrupted in the fourth set because of darkness. But that was it. Next day Osuna polished him off, then teamed with No. 2 Mexican Antonio Palafox to win the doubles to lead the jubilant squad to a 5-0 runaway...