Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement took in much ground, but it was so. Compared to the days when Brigadier General John J. Pershing chased Pancho Villa across northern Mexico, today's problems are nothing. The Mexicans worry about the effect of cut-rate U.S. cotton surplus sales on its worldwide markets; some U.S. mining outfits fret over Mexican taxes; the sewers of Tijuana hamper ocean bathing near San Diego. And so it goes, trailing into insignificance...
Only a few years ago, such honor and position would have been unthinkable for a Mexican woman. Until well into the 20th century, a woman's place was in the home-except during wartime, when she was expected to fight like a man. She could not get a passport on her own, could not buy, sell or manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected...
Unlikely as it seemed, the personable Ago Khan, 22, was fresh out of prospective begums, at least as far as anyone in the gossip mills knew. One of his brightest flames, Sylvia Casablancas, 19, daughter of Mexican Moneybags Fernando Casablancas, disclosed that summer had brought her a love match with handsome French Tennistar Jean-Noel Grinda, 22. That still left the Aga linked with pretty Tracy Pelissier, 18, stepdaughter of British Moviemaker Sir Carol Reed, and the Aga's house guest in Cannes for a spell last summer. Tracy's mother spiked any thoughts of serious romance most...
General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 58, retired Army Chief of Staff, flew from New York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...mission to the U.S. for his Chihuahuan master (Pedro Armendariz). There he breaks a leg, is forced to stay over for two months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town. A U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill) wants him to help form joint U.S.-Mexican battalions to go after the Apaches, the Texas Rangers want to give him a job, and the major's estranged wife (Julie London) just wants him. Mitchum begs her not to seduce him and hurt his opportunity for a new life. Before she has a chance, Mitchum kills another villain...