Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reunion in Prague. The Mexican ambassador, hoping to get the widely hated Arbenz out of his embassy and into the air in secrecy, hired a commercial DC-4 and set its departure for midnight, but the press got wind of his plan. That evening some 500 antiCommunists, including many of the capital's well-heeled aristocracy, gulped their dinners and hurried to the airport to boo Arbenz...
...Paris' Olympia music hall, vaudeville was in full flower. There were acrobats, unicyclists, a juggler, Mexican guitarists. But the attraction that filled the 2,000-seat house last week was strictly jazz, in the venerable person of Sidney Bechet, 57, Paris' resident jazz professor and one of the city's most famed citizens...
Each year the VA pays $2.5 billion in pensions to 3,800,000 veterans or their surviving dependents, including one Civil War survivor, ten dependents of Mexican War veterans and 226 durable veterans of the Indian wars. The War of 1812's last pensioner (Mrs. Esther Morgan of Independence, Ore. whose veteran father died in 1905) dropped off the VA's rolls in 1946. With equal longevity, the last Korean-war pensioner would be paid off in 2087 A.D. Disability payments can run up to $400 or more a month, but most of them are much smaller. Pressure...
...Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Cuba and a close associate of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...