Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe gives the world's best high. Prostitution, vice and corruption abound, and guns are as common as palm trees. Moreover, Acapulco is the largest city in mountainous and jungle-clad Guerrero, Mexico's most lawless state. Guerrero has become such a problem that last week the Mexican army was embarked on a massive drive to round up all the arms in the state...
Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell as two tough-talking, hard-living brothers who settle in southern Arizona in the 1870s, up against Apaches and Mexican bandits. Premiere...
...contributes to lush vegetable growth near the small (pop. 5,000), arid fishing town of Puerto Penasco. Heart of the system is a 60-kw. Caterpillar diesel generator. But unlike other diesel-powered systems, in which about two-thirds of the fuel energy is wasted as heat, the Mexican installation feeds its hot exhaust gases and heated coolant water into a heat exchanger. Sea water pumped through the exchanger is heated to 160° F., and then passed into a tower evaporator. About 10% of the heated water is vaporized, condensed into pure water on the sea-water-cooled coils...
...merged lines promise to pare expenses by cutting out competing ticket offices in some 25 cities and by ending route duplications. By building up their fleets, which now include Fairchild F-27 turboprops and Douglas DC-9 short-haul jets, they hope for rich runs to Hawaii and to Mexican resorts...
Maybe there was no reason for it. Samuel Fredman, secretary of the New York City Bar Association's matrimonial-law committee, does not think that the new statute will affect Mexican divorces. "Juarez has no domicile requirement," he explains. "So the section is actually irrelevant." It will not even have any force against quickie-divorce states like Nevada, contends Mrs. Stanley Kooper, another lawyer. "The U.S. Constitution says you have to give full faith and credit to other states," she points out. "That goes for any law, including divorce laws...