Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulars could hardly believe it. At political conventions to nominate mayoralty candidates in hundreds of Mexican towns last week, local mem bers of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) found that they were free to do the choosing themselves. As a result, the country's next municipal elections will be the first since the party was founded in 1929 that will not be dominated by the tight inner elite in Mexico City that has traditionally bossed P.R.I. and the nation...
...most south Texas towns, Mexican Americans in Crystal City (pop. 10,000) outnumber Anglo-Americans roughly 4 to 1. But not until two years ago did they muster enough voting strength to elect their own people to local office. Then, a group called the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO) launched a get-out-the-vote drive, produced a winning slate of five Mexican American city councilmen. It was the first time that Anglos had not controlled the municipal administration, and it was hailed as a harbinger of change throughout south Texas politics...
Still, all was not lost for Mexican American voters. Of the CASA mem bers on the new council, two are Anglos and three are of Mexican descent...
...Total war dead (excluding the Civil War): 598,585. The breakdown: Revolutionary War, 4,435; War of 1812, 2,260; Mexican War, 13,283; Spanish-American War, 2,446; World War I, 116,516; World War II, 405,399; Korean...
...long-winded, quasi-Biblical western apparently had fun filling their script with reminders that the star has previously played such roles as Ben-Hur, Moses and John the Baptist. With Old Testament wrath, he pursues Chief Sierra Charriba through the wilderness in A.D. 1865. But once Heston gets on Mexican soil, Director Sam Peckinpah (Ride the High Country) lets Dundee ramble so freely that the Apaches are soon lost in subplots...