Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fears, is only a bit of just that, at the Brattle. Mexican film of two years ago has interesting effects, but failed to please its Mexico City patrons during a week-and-a-half run there...
...Invited Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to a meeting in Washington next month. (Both St. Laurent and Ruiz Cortines accepted, the latter subject to approval of the Mexican Congress...
...boasts a TV transmitter. In Brazil contestants compete for as much as 45,000 cruzeiros ($675); in Italy it is possible to win a fat bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying two of Cortez' scouts in his war with the Aztecs. Said a spokesman...
...straight as a boy. He is an old roue who cannot live on slops, but must have sulphuric acid in his tea." Sulphuric he remained to the very end. In February 1848 a resolution was proposed in the House to honor the victorious generals of the Mexican War. Adams had opposed the war because he thought it an unjust one. He still thought so, and his vote now was a ringing no. It was his last word on the floor of Congress. A few minutes later he collapsed. He died next day, but he spoke like a son of John...
...20th Century-Fox) makes a fairly engrossing picture until it tries to tell moviegoers what it is all about. Joseph Gotten is a prosperous rancher-lawyer who lives in a CinemaScope valley deep in the heart of Arizona. One stormy evening, driving home from his weekly visit to a Mexican brothel, he gets his car across a flood-swollen river just before it becomes impassable. When he pulls into his garage he finds it already occupied by his brother, Van Johnson, who has broken out of prison back East and is trying to make it across the border to join...