Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heroes & Courtesans. Such turns of fortune are nothing new to Siqueiros, and no one seems less bothered about his politics than his fellow Mexicans. They hail him as the grand old man of the triumvirate (with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) that launched the Mexican mural renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout Mexico, he is today known as "El Maestro," and no sooner had the ribbon been cut than hundreds of Mexicans, from art students to aging revolutionary veterans,, swarmed through Chapultepec Castle's drafty corridors to get an early view of his handiwork...
...Humanity to be installed in the Olimpico Hotel, scheduled for completion at the time of the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since the March covers 48,000 sq. ft., it will be the world's largest mural. To Siqueiros, that is only as it should be. Says he proudly: "Mexican muralism is being reconsidered and recognized all over the world. It is not a nationalist movement, but a transcendental...
...nurse, and Lionel Harris, 31, $106-a-week postal clerk: quintuplets (four girls and a boy, one girl stillborn, the others expected to live); after taking a fertility drug following five years of childless marriage; in Brooklyn. Two days later, Maria Flores de Ortiz, 28, the wife of a Mexican farm worker, gave birth to five girls (one stillborn) in Chavarria, 65 miles from Mexico City; she already has three boys, took no drugs...
...harder to find homes for Ne gro, Indian, Puerto Rican or Mexican-American children than for babies born to white Protestant or Catholic mothers (Jewish babies are in the shortest supply). Close to 90% of the children adopted today are white, though about 60% of all illegitimate babies are colored. The average waiting period for a white adopted child varies from five to nine months in Los Angeles to one year or more in New York; but any white couple willing to take a Negro or Indian child is likely to have it arrive so fast that they...
Minneapolis Tribune Reporter Joe Rigert, 35, and his wife, Jan, 32, are the parents of a little league of nations: six children, ranging in age from H to 14, and in race from white to Japanese-Irish, East Indian-Mexican, white-Negro, Indian-Negro. Only one in that brood is the Rigerts' natural child. But when strangers ask the inevitable "Are they all yours?", the answer is plainly, and truthfully, affirmative...