Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Jesus Pimentel stepped from the ring in San Antonio last week after fighting for what was billed as the North American Bantamweight championship, the city's Mexican-American majority had two reasons to be pleased. Not only had the Mexican contender won, but the fight also netted $1,000 for an unlikely beneficiary: Holy Cross High School, a parochial school that serves San Antonio's poorest Chicano neighborhood (median family income...
...tuition, but the twelve brothers who run it refused to quit. In a city where 44% of the Chicano population are functionally illiterate, they argued, only the Catholic schools offer slum children a quality education. In fact, 85% of Holy Cross's 560 male students are Mexican-Americans and 80% of them go on to college, compared with 11% from the district's public high schools...
...success of Operation Intercept, President Nixon's project to shut off the flow of Mexican marijuana into this country, and a poor Mexican harvest have caused such a shortage of grass in the Boston area that local pushers have resorted to blending it with a number of look-alike substitutes...
...this hairsplitting is not without its dangers, though. The Mexican company ran one night in Acapulco before the authorities moved in to close the show for "undermining the morals of youth" and put the cast in the local cárcel for five hours. By coincidence or something, the date of the Mexico opening was the only one that was not determined by the company astrologer. All other openings have been determined by the stars and planets, and all were financial successes. Even history could not stand in the way of Astrologer Marya Crumere's choice of this week...
...with "only Frank can kill a tree." By now everybody was mad at Erwin- the tree people and others who already resented the fact that he eliminated PEO. (PEO was a very successful program for admitting and funding a few highly motivated students from minority group- which counting blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Indians, make up 46 per cent of the state- who, for various reasons, could neither meet the SAT score requirements nor pay the money.) Erwin said that if we got too many minority students they would take over the campus. Everybody not already upset for one of these...