Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexican Ties...
...Polygamist Harold Blackmore of Utah: "He's always preaching this blood and thunder stuff-you know, if people don't live the civil law [of Ervil's God], cut their heads off. He is very pugnacious, but is also a smooth-tongued type." Residents of the Mexican villages where LeBaron has been hiding out since May describe him as loco and mitad diablo (half devil...
After Joel's 1972 murder, Ervil was found guilty in Ensenada of being the "intellectual author" of the crime and was sentenced to twelve years in prison. Ervil spent twelve months in jail before a Mexican appeals court overturned the conviction. The lubricant for the reversal, according to one of Joel LeBaron's followers, was a bribe to local officials. Ervil later spent ten months in Mexican prisons while waiting to go on trial for the Los Molinos raid. But he was eventually released-once more after the intervention of some influential Mexican officials...
Investment Advice An Atlanta bank hears that Mexican securities are a good investment, but it has no one who knows anything about Mexico. It asks its correspondent in New York-which in turn may consult the officers of its correspondent in Mexico City...
...must be insured and log at least 1,000 miles a month for "exposure" -get a free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram's Gin) and a hearts-and-cupids background emblazoned HOW'S YOUR LOVE LIFE? (Ultra-Brite toothpaste). Owners of Lincolns and Cadillacs have tried to enroll their cars, but to no avail...