Word: nchez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN OF SÁNCHEZ (499 pp.)- Oscar Lewis-Random House...
...Children of Sánchez is the story of a family of live slum dwellers in modern Mexico City. Oscar Lewis, a University of Illinois anthropologist who has devoted most of his career to Latin America, met the Sanchez family in 1956 during a study of Mexico City's Casa Grande vecindad (tenement). He took a preliminary look at them in a 1959 book describing a day in the lives of Five Families, concluded that the Sánchez clan was typical of much in Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told...
...band of international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself the nucleus of armed support for a Cuban liberal named Aureliano Sánchez Arango. Most significant, the U.S. was pointedly withholding promised support of Manuel Ray, the young reform-minded Cuban exile with the strongest claim to organizable underground strength inside Cuba...