Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosenberg, whose face twitches and whose hair has suddenly turned white in patches, although he is only 37, whined his innocence: "Whatever I did in Guatemala was done under the orders of the legally constituted regime." He did have cause for concern: the Mexican Foreign Office said at week's end that it did not consider him to be the usual political exile, immune to extradition. The same may go for Cruz Wer. But informed Mexicans and Guatemalans believe that Arbenz will qualify as "political" and get permanent asylum...
...Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman, 26. Off for a European honeymoon billed as a six-month safari, Astor was back in Manhattan only a month later, offered the inexplicable explanation that he was long on capital (estimated at $70 million), short of cash. Actually, Gertrude, taking exception to Astor's Mexican divorce and remarriage in haste, had attached all his assets in 27 banks, 35 stock brokerage firms, his real estate and a garage where one of his cars was laid up. It could all be cleared up, she told a court, if Astor would merely let her forget...
...MEXICAN SULPHUR will soon be flowing to world markets in quantity. Pan American Sulphur Co., biggest of three U.S. firms developing a huge sulphur discovery on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, has just completed a $7,000,000 plant, which will swing into full production next month at a capacity of 800,000 tons yearly. Pan American's proven sulphur reserve: 30 million tons...
...great and historic continental combination?" This question dominated the official Peronista press as Henry Holland's airplane landed in Buenos Aires. As part of the process of answering, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State next morning talked privately with Juan Peron. Whatever the Secretary said (in fluent, Mexican-accented Spanish) and heard, the chat set a sunny tone for his visit...
...London, six months after it was seen in Manhattan, Salt of the Earth (TIME, March 29) opened to rave reviews in the anti-U.S. and left-wing press. A militantly proletarian film about striking Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico (sponsored by the Red-run International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers), Salt even won the measured approval of the staid Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case...