Word: mexicano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call him El Mexicano...
When Mexico's thin, redheaded El Fakir was unnailed from the simulated cross on which he had spent 488 hours, 45 minutes (TIME, Sept. 27) and taken to the Sanatorio Mexicano, Catholic nuns refused to minister to him. He rested four days; then, against doctor's orders, rose and walked to his hotel. That evening he strolled abroad with his three dogs. Half an hour later he was dead...
Finally, at 1:30 a.m. Independence Day Sept. 16, El Fakir's doctor ordered,him unnailed lest he be permanently injured. From his bed in the Sanatorio Mexicano El Fakir declared: "I am strong enough to be nailed up again next week...
...plan and nature of the maneuvers, which employed 11,000 troops for a fortnight, was a key to the new destiny of the Ejercito Mexicano. The imagined danger was not an uprising, not a local revolt: a foreign power was supposed to be at tempting to invade Mexico. Significantly the invasion was supposed to come from Mexico's east coast, facing the stormy Caribbean and stormier Europe, rather than the west coast, which is said to have been thoroughly explored by swarms of Japanese "fishermen." A "Red" Army was detailed to defend the 6,000-foot great central plateau...
Rangers of Fortune (Paramount) is a dreamy description of three restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom...