Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Portly John Jacob Astor, 44, a fur trader by ancestry and a fur giver by inclination, appealed to a Manhattan court for rescue from his mixup. Torn between a dubious Mexican divorce from Gertrude, Wife No. 2, and a messy Florida separation from Dolly, Wife No. 3, J.J. begged to learn some legal answers to some turgid questions: 1) If he decides to kiss and make up, which woman is his lawful wife? 2) When he labors through his upcoming income-tax return, should he file jointly with Gert or Dolly? 3) If he were to die before...
...surf off the Mexican resort of Acapulco swam a typical Hollywood twosome, dashing Cinemactor Michael Wilding and jet-powered Cinemagnate Michael Todd. After splashing about, the two Mikes reportedly had a drink together. Then twice-married Mike Wilding ex ited after freeing his ailing wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, who had a relapse after a shopping tour with him, to get a divorce and marry twice-married Mike Todd, twice...
...Marie ("The Body") McDonald. To tell the truth, few did. Marie's hair-greying tale-of being kidnaped, doped, raped and tossed into the California desert night-was as hard to believe as if it had all happened to her before cameras for a Grade B thriller. A Mexican and a Negro, youthful, hopped-up and zoot-suited, had abducted her in a car, claimed blonde Marie, after announcing: "We want your money, your rings and your body!" Some 150 miles away and 24 hours later, a truck driver spotted The Body wandering dazed along a highway, her hair...
...dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses and ten cannons, advanced against the unknown things that lay behind an 18,000-ft. mountain wall. The fantastic outcome-in which Spanish chivalry and Christian faith matched themselves against the Mexican capital, set like a city of legend amid its lagoons in the mountains-takes on the nature of both myth and history. Armored knight met priest-warrior, each masked in the symbols of his faith...
...have been glorified by many historians; nevertheless, these books make clear that the battle was between the armed faith of Christian Europe and a cruel empire whose ceremonies seemed to the Spanish soldiers a bloody, blasphemous parody of the Mass. Inland, the conquistadors first met the strange Mexican-Indian priesthood, men whose hair was caked with human blood and whose temple floors were clogged with it. The Christians had no hesitation in breaking their idols. Even then they had no notion that in the city of Tenochtitlán as many as 20,000 human sacrifices had been made...