Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawyer James D. Lorenz Jr., now 30, gave up private law practice in Los Angeles two years ago to establish California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., which provides free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything from predatory salesmen who extract $500 in time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz...
...point out evil but demands immediate action to eradicate it. An example of contemporary folk art, the Teatro has traveled the dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State College, "because society does not allow us to make noise." Like Valdez, most of the other guerrilla players are convinced that...
During it all, Mexican laborers worked furiously to get everything ready for the games and the spectators flooding in from all over the world. The government spent something like $150 million. University City Stadium, for track competition, was enlarged. Other facilities: a second, 100,000-seat stadium for soccer, a 22,000-seat geodesic-domed Sports Palace for basketball and boxing, a suspended-roof pool with unobstructed sight lines for 10,000 spectators for the swimming events. For the competitors themselves, there was a $12.5 million Olympic Village with 29 six-and ten-story apartment buildings, six mess halls...
...town, op-art posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...
...will be whisked up a ramp to a parking wing, while guests register in the vast lobby. Most of the hotel, inside and out, is finished in rough white plaster; art works enliven public places, and there are whole walls painted in fierce pink, yellow or purple-all good Mexican colors. The bedrooms are unusually large -some 23 ft. by 14 ft.-and the corridors are 10 ft. wide...