Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imports 25%. When the trade deficit kept getting worse and capital showed signs of taking flight northward, officials decided that they could not wait for this summer's expected bumper cotton and coffee crops to save the situation. Last week the government abruptly announced a devaluation of the Mexican peso-from 8.65 to 12.50 to the dollar...
...then, Mexican officials hope to reduce nonessential imports, boost exports (particularly of metals, which have slumped badly), reverse the movement of capital, stimulate internal investment, and bring in more tourists. Of one thing the officials can be sure: thousands of vacation-minded U.S. citizens will be keenly interested to learn that south of the border this summer the dollar will reach 44% further...
Ancient Mexico is famous for its temples and pyramids; less known and harder to study are the lives of the ancient Mexicans. For nine years Archeologist Richard MacNeish of the Canadian National Museum has devoted himself to this job. Last week he was finishing the excavation of a cave in northeastern Mexico that contained a long cultural history of a Mexican people...
...righteous citizens of the Redlands -with your 27 churches and 35 civic and fraternal organizations-you, to your everlasting shame, refused to let your children attend school because 85 little Puerto Rican and Mexican children were enrolled there . . . Sure, some of them come to school unbathed, even as some of yours. Sure, some of them don't understand our language, but they're young and teachable and citizens. They're vaccinated, they're inoculated . . . They can't contaminate your children. You can contaminate them-with the germ of intolerance...
...Wetbacks (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). A documentary on illegal Mexican immigrants...