Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown, who usually seems as combative as a chocolate soldier, the decision worked like a bugle call. "Off to the races!" he cried at an 8 a.m. capitol press conference. Then, boarding a battered DC-7 in Sacramento, Brown prop-stopped from the far north to the Mexican border for a series of six airport press conferences announcing his candidacy. Thirteen hours and 1,500 miles later, Brown, 60, was as perky as ever. "When I get into a political campaign," he chortled, "the old adrenalin starts shooting through my veins...
THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Robert Preston narrates "The Sun Country," a special on Texas. Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, with New Mexican (by adoption) Greer Garson and Oklahoman (by birth) Pamela Tiffin pointing out some of the sights...
...hours or more, supported by buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California one day last spring, enraged Mexican sport fishermen counted more than 300 sailfish on the 2,000 hooks of a single long line. The line was only one of five laid by a Japanese boat that fished the area for 14 days. Total estimated catch: 21,000 sailfish...
...Jamaica last summer, sport fishermen blasted away at a long liner's glass floats with rifles. In Acapulco, only the timely arrival of a Mexican coast-guard boat averted a shooting match between charter-boat vigilantes and a Japanese long liner armed with a machine gun. And last July, when a flotilla of Norwegian long liners steamed into Maryland's Jack Spot, a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boats' propellers...
Greene has taken his readers there, or somewhere very like it, many times before. In The Power and the Glory, it was the Mexican jail cell that swallowed up the whisky priest. In A Burnt-Out Case, it was the jungle leper colony that drew Querry, the architect who has lost the very capacity to feel. In Brighton Rock, it was that violent urban netherworld where hopelessness is almost a beatitude...