Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's state legislature waded through routine business in the closing hours of its 1957 session last March, a tough-talking, cigar-worrying statehouse reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican (circ.11,710) scented a far-from-routine story. What awoke the newsman's curiosity in Reporter Neil Addington, during a discussion of a $221,000 appropriation bill for the National Guard of New Mexico (4,000 officers and men), was the evasiveness with which officials who had drawn up the budget answered lawmakers' questions about such standout items as a $14,000-a-year telephone bill...
Neil Addington, 32, a Marine Corps machine gunner in World War II, promptly trained his sights on the National Guard and, by a well-aimed series of disclosures in the New Mexican, blew up a statewide scandal involving the highhanded misuse of thousands of dollars in state funds, compounded by unbelievably lax state auditing procedures. Last week, after a week's airing before a legislative committee, the Guard's Adjutant General Charles Gurdon Sage, 62, a veteran of Bataan.† Japanese prison camps and 38 years as a guardsman, resigned under fire. The Guard's shenanigans were...
...first hints of the Guard's financial maneuverings were printed in a blustery political column in the New Mexican that is traditionally bylined El Chivo (The Goat). The goat-writer: Bones Addington. Columnist Addington used his anonymous goat-butts to rout out productive leads for Reporter Addington. Example: in the midst of his disclosures, half a dozen calls told of nighttime removals of state-owned power mowers and home freezers from Guard officers' homes; Sage later admitted that he himself had returned a freezer. Addington also uncovered many state vouchers that had been falsified to permit unallowable purchases...
...talks a client's language better than Dr. Irving P. Krick, 50, onetime Caltech meteorologist who started the first private weather firm in Denver in 1938. A leading rainmaker as well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto the reviewing stand last January...
Archaeologists generally have accepted five Mexican cultures-Mayan, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Totonac and Olmec-as being the oldest in North America, and have dated them around A.D. 300. But last week tests performed at the University...