Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crashed and burned after an aborted take-off from New York's Idlewild Airport on Jan. 19, 1961 (4 dead, 102 survivors), apparently primarily because Eastern Air Lines Pilot William B. Poe closed the throttles just after liftoff. Poe, on hand to check out the plane's Mexican crew, was misled by an evidently faulty airspeed indicator which made him think the aircraft was not picking up speed fast enough to sustain flight...
...been on the move ever since," he says. "It gets in your blood and you can't stop." Weekdays he was a journeyman carpenter on construction jobs; weekends he played semiprofessional ball. Webb hit nails and nailed hitters all over the West, from Calgary down to the Mexican border, developing at the same time a taste for old bourbon and young ladies. During World War I, he worked in the Oakland shipyards; when it was over, he married his childhood sweetheart, Hazel Church. The marriage broke up in 1952, and last year Webb married pretty, brunette Toni Ince...
...studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
Ultimately, however, Impulsora hopes to turn out 15,000 to 20,000 Mexican-produced Borgward PP 100s and Isabellas each year. In the meantime, the new consortium expects to pick up change by selling spare parts to owners of the thousands of German-made Borgwards still in circulation all around the world...
Ambitious purpose of the new consortium is to move Borgward's operations to Mexico, which is eagerly trying to build its own auto industry. First to move will be Borgward's body factory, subassembly and assembly plants. Until Mexican technicians can be trained, mechanical parts will be made in Bremen-and production of complete cars for the European market may also be resumed there...