Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note to the Soviet embassy, Secretary Dulles barred Soviet travelers from 27% of the U.S., including a 15-mile band along most of the Mexican border and the shores of the Great Lakes. It was no coincidence that Americans are barred from about 30% of the Soviet Union-including a 15-mile band along much of the Soviet border and the shores of the Caspian...
...MEXICAN CATTLE will soon be flowing to U.S. markets for the first time in 19 months. Mexico has finally stamped out its epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, and the U.S. will officially open the border on Jan. 1 to cattle crowding stockyards south of the Rio Grande...
Died. Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, 68, Mexican career diplomat, onetime (1935-45) ambassador to the U.S., chairman of the U.N. Security Council in 1946, general in the Mexican Army, surgeon, poet and musician; after long illness; in Mexico City. As ambassador to the U.S., Najera worked to implement the Good Neighbor Policy, was instrumental in setting up the 1942 settlement of $40 million in U.S. claims against the Mexican government, including those for American-owned oil lands seized by Mexico...
...black crape. The book is a flaccid throwback to the I-never-had-a-chance school of social protest popular in the '30s. Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town," Angel Chavez makes his first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead...
...local school board. Last week, at a hearing on the decision, the board said it was not interested in the truth or falsity of the letter, only whether or not he had written it. Meanwhile, the pressure was too much for Superintendent Miller: he resigned. But the New Mexican was far from satisfied. It planned to carry on its battle, hoped to persuade incoming Governor John F. Simms Jr. to start a state investigation of the scandal...