Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five Spanish-American citizens of Winslow, Ariz. (pop. 6,500) complained in federal court that people of Mexican or Latin descent are permitted use of the town swimming pool on Wednesdays only, while "Anglos" are allowed to swim on the other six days of the week. The pool's water, they added, is always changed on Thursday...
Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
...rest of the characters are normal, in a rather hideous way. There is solares, the Mexican whom Mrs. E-C marries, and his appalling family, which looks like something out of Margaret Mead. Although the Solares relatives sing, screech, and dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...
Besides the overlong Godfrey sketch, the only major criticism of "Ad Man Out" is its running of acts one and two together. It would be much more effective to put an intermission right after "Don't You Ever." After this comes the beauty contest and an amusing Mexican-type dance, fine, but less effective because the audience is beginning to get a bit restless...
...engine heads, four-barreled carburetors, horsepower piled on horsepower. There were also gestures toward safety. One driver had reconnoitered the whole course, splashed yellow paint on the road to signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other drivers had also painted the course in stretches and confused the system). Thousands of Mexican soldiers were assigned to patrol the route, ward off unwary roadsiders. But safety seldom wins a race. For five days, over eight separately timed laps, speed was the watchword...