Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators will descend on Washington in nine "caravans" that will include vehicles as disparate as Greyhound buses and 325 mule-drawn wagons. Though the majority of the marchers will be black, there will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...
...REPORTS: "HUNGER IN AMERICA" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reporter David Culhane visits Virginia tenant farmers, Alabama sharecroppers, Arizona Indians and Texas Mexican-Americans to dramatize the plight of some 4,000,000 Americans who suffer from malnutrition...
...Both wed daughters of Shipowner Stavros Livanos. Onassis' wife, Tina, divorced him in 1960 after the start of his friendship with Opera Singer Maria Callas, is now married to the Marquess of Blandford. Niarchos and Wife Eugenia were divorced in 1965, reunited -the Mexican divorce was not valid in Greece -after his brief marriage to Charlotte Ford...
...come across like John Lindsay, Western style. Right off the bat he raised the hopes of the city's minorities. After his inauguration at the glittering San Francisco Opera House in January, Alioto scheduled receptions in the predominantly Negro Hunters Point-Bayview section and the Mission District (Mexican-Americans, Filipinos, American Indians). Humming operatic airs, sipping Campari and soda or playing the violin, he wowed the crowds. "The ghetto never goes to the Opera House," he said, "so we'll take the inaugural to the ghetto...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...