Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a clinch over a divorce settlement and alimony, Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw, John (The Quiet Man) Wayne, 46, and his estranged, Mexican-born wife, Esperanza, 31, suddenly broke clean and began swinging wildly in court. John, Esperanza charged, drank too much. "All the trouble I've had came out of a bottle," said she. Then she recalled how He-Man Wayne had dragged her about by the hair and another time by a foot in hotels. Nonsense, retorted John. It was Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes...
...Dallas Museum of Fine Arts displayed a looming mural (18 ft. by 10 ft.) by Mexican Artist Rufino Tamayo (commissioned last year in the hope that it would help eliminate anti-Mexican prejudice in Texas). Titled El Hombre, the mural shows a monolithic, foreshortened giant, his back to the viewer, growing like a strange modernistic tower into the sky. His legs, bulging with orange-colored, cubist muscles, are firmly earthbound; but his upper half reaches into the stars. Explained Artist Tamayo: "I wanted to show man as a rational being going to higher places." Dallas, by & large, was delighted. Mayor...
...Actor Zachary (Mildred Pierce) Scott returned from a Mexican fishing trip wearing a plain gold earring in his pierced left ear lobe. Said Mrs. Scott: "There has never been the slightest unpleasantness about it. Of course, it attracts attention, particularly from the ladies. Everybody seems to enjoy...
Article 34 of the Mexican Constitution used to begin: "Citizens are those males who . . ." Last week, after ratification by state legislatures and formal promulgation by the Senate, the wording was deftly amended. Article 34 now begins: "Citizens are those men and women...
...start at 21 for single men or women, at 18 for the married-on the amiable theory that marriage is an indication of maturity. Only one of 40 Senators spoke out against the amendment. "This," cried Aquiles ElorcLy, in a faint echo of the anticlericalism that used to keep Mexican politics at a low boil, "hands the country to the church." None of the other 39 lawmakers seemed to fear that Mexico's predominantly Roman Catholic women would rush out to form an all powerful, pro-clerical party...