Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Ramón Mirabal Carrión, secretary-general of the Communist Party in Puerto Rico, stepped onto the Mexican approach of the international bridge connecting Reynosa, Mexico and Hidalgo, Texas. The moment he walked across the U.S. boundary, Mirabal was arrested for violation of the Smith Act. He had been hiding in Mexico since June, and yet, somehow, the FBI evidently knew exactly when to expect...
...village of Amecameca, the Indians drew their coarse woollen ponchos tight against the night air and counted the bodies as they were brought down the mountain-four men and two girls, the highest toll for a single mountain-climbing accident in Mexican history...
...unpredictable tennis. Far off form last week, Vic Seixas, the new U.S. champion, was knocked out in the quarter finals of Mexico City's Pan-American tournament. (The week before, Seixas had been beaten by Mexico's Gustavo Palafox in Davis Cup competition.) Temperamental Art Larsen let Mexican officiating get under his skin, lost out in the semifinals. Only Tony Trabert held his own against the mediocre competition, and at week's end he won the title...
Regardless of housing differences, or lack of anything resembling House libraries at Harvard the Dartmouth undergraduate boasts an impressive center of learning in the imposing Baker library. Part of his regard for the academic center dates back to a day in 1932 when Jose Clements Orozco, world famous Mexican muralist pushed through the crowd in the basement of the library and dramatically climbed the scaffolding...
...progressing smoothly. He had persuaded a U.S. company to make the recordings at cost and to provide free record players. He had lined up professional entertainers (including Dolores del Rio, Bing Crosby, Andy Russell and Mexico's Cantinflas) to sing songs and tell stories. He planned to record Mexican classics and concerts, hoped to have a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." Such notables as Mexico City's Archbishop Luis Mario Martinez had given his project their blessings; a department store had offered to have a Discojos...