Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housing project opposite the supermarket. Speaking rapidly and easily in Spanish, he explained that DeMoulas was making lots of money on the Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood, but that there were no Puerto Ricans employed in the store, at least not in the front counters. Munoz, a disarmingly affable Mexican-American, spoke enthusiastically about the pressure the Puerto Ricans could bring against DeMoulas, urging them to help their fellow Spanish-speaking Americans who were suffering, 3000 miles away, just so that DeMoulas could make a few extra dollars. If the Puerto Ricans would all shop at the First National Supermarket...
Chavez, Munoz and several other Mexican-Americans from the Delano area then began to lay the groundwork for the National Farm Workers' Union. Beginning in the Mexican-American community in the small farm town of Delano, they established a credit union and a food cooperative, and began making plans for further community services. Then, in 1965, the Filipino grape pickers in the Delano area spontaneously went out on strike. The National Farm Workers were unprepared for the move, with only $52.50 in the union treasury, but voted anyway to join the Filipinos in a massive walkout of some 5000 grape...
...with the influx of Olympics visitors, it may well come to a halt at times. The trip from downtown hotels to the games used to take 30 minutes; now it takes at least an hour. Yet few of the 135,000 tourists seem to mind. For the extravagant Mexican sense of politeness is heightened by the Olympics. There are 900 pretty, miniskirted, multilingual girl aides standing ready to help bewildered tourists and foreign officials. Even Mexican motorists have shifted attitudes. A jaywalker used to be maimed almost inevitably; now he can cross the street and get only a muttered curse...
...Mexico City. It has life, richness and plenty of spice, like the food. The smell of cooking corn meal is pervasive and tempting, although street vendors of tacos and enchiladas are best avoided. But the beer is nearly sublime -and it or bottled water makes the saf est drinking. Mexican specialties like ceviche (marinated raw fish), huachi-nango (red snapper) and caldo tlalpeño (piquant chicken soup) are worth the visit. Reservations, whether for a restaurant típico or for one of the top international restaurants, are required. Lunch begins at 2 p.m., dinner at 9, and prices...
...said Dorman, both Laetrile and Liefcort are still available in Mexico, especially in border towns near California and Texas. San Diego is the headquarters for a lay group named the International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, which drums up business for the Mexican clinics "where the discredited and worthless cancer products are used...