Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judicious balance of public and private investment. But every now and then the government feels the need to recall its revolutionary beginnings with a move calculated to prove that its heart is still with the laboring masses. One such action was initiated early this year: an amendment to the Mexican constitution that would legally oblige companies to share profits with their employees. With President Adolfo Lopez Mateos pushing hard, the measure sailed through Congress, was then passed out to the country for approval by a majority of Mexico's 29 states. Last week it was back for final congressional...
Married. Janet Leigh, 35, grade A profile in Hollywood grade B pictures; and Robert Lee Brandt. 35. stockbroking Beverly Hills squire; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Las Vegas' Sands Hotel the day after she obtained a quickie Mexican divorce from Actor Tony Curtis...
...that they refuse to share the wealth. Profit sharing, supervised by the states, has been part of the Mexican constitution ever since 1917. Moreover, the annual aguinaldos-a bonus of two months' pay at Christmastime-is almost a national tradition. What bothers businessmen about the new provision is the unspecific terms in which it is couched. Before it was introduced, and as it made its rounds, scant effort was made to explain to private interests what the measure would mean in practice...
...Other names for the puncture weed: goat-head, Mexican sandburr, ground burr...
Merciful Silence. Under DiMaggio's hand, the funeral was sober, orderly and brief. But even burial did not bring the long wake to an end. The temptation of mystery was too strong to ignore, and gossipists busied themselves with its narrow questions. Mexican Film Writer Jose Bolanos was suggested as Marilyn's tragic Lothario, and a friend in Mexico City announced breathlessly that Marilyn and he had intended to marry in September. Writers even troubled themselves with the identity of the anonymous mourner who sent $50 worth of roses to the funeral-together with a love sonnet from...