Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chipper than usual, New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer threw an office-warming cocktail party in the Mexico City penthouse suite of O'Dwyer, Bernstien & Correa, the law firm he is starting up with his brother Paul, New York Lawyer Oscar Bernstien, and a Mexican partner. O'Dwyer, who stayed on in Mexico (despite investigations back home of corruption in city politics) after resigning as U.S. ambassador last December, expects to visit the U.S. for about 90 days this year. "I plan to spend as much time in the United States...
...WHEN a Mexican from the high, easygoing plateau of Mexico City arrives in New York, he gets the feeling of someone entering a great factory where powerful machines making a tremendous noise are producing pieces of something at terrific speed (what, nobody knows). He sees trains up in the air, trains on the level and trains underground, all running under rigid schedule...
Lesbia learned golf from her father, an ex-caddy and high-70s amateur named Joe Lobo (the Spanish surname means wolf). Her first big victory came two years ago in the Mexican Women's Amateur, when Lesbia was only a junior in San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School. Since then, Joe Lobo, an engraver who lives above his own shop, has been working overtime to finance his daughter's travel to tournaments. Nowadays Lesbia also gets a helping hand from admiring fellow Texans, who give her a lift to tournaments, sometimes arrange for her to stay...
...barroom floor simultaneously, like well-rehearsed ballet dancers. Ride, Vaquero! has some exciting stretches, but Anthony Quinn as the bandit provides the only glimpses of distinction; at moments he is so good that he seems to have ridden into the scene out of some other movie. As a Mexican priest, Kurt Kasznar is conscientious and effective. Miss Gardner is exquisitely bored. Taylor is Taylor. Even the Technicolor is fuzzy, but there are some fine shots of some fine horses...
...native blankets in that hotel bedroom. There is also a free tour of Cuernavaca and Taxco, two of Mexico's most beautiful cities. And finally, there is a battle royal in a busted cable car suspended thousands of feet above the Andes (the picture never makes clear what Mexicans are doing in the Andes). As the car plunges to destruction-after all the right people are rescued-a Mexican makes a remark that may fittingly serve as a caption for the whole show. It was, he says, "a beautiful disaster...