Word: original
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That extraordinary vessel, the American melting pot, is bubbling once again. The source of ferment: American residents of Spanish origin, whose official numbers have increased by 14.3% in the past five years alone. Now the country's fastest growing minority, they are bidding to become an increasingly influential...
...even by those who have never been there. Mellow--everyone I met on the coast as I headed north told me the main thing about Frisco was how mellow it is. Maybe it's the natural environment, or the Spanish legacy, or the peculiar effect of its Gold Rush origin, or simply all those people up there who've destroyed their brain cells with acid, but the city certainly seems mellow, with a capital laid back. Somehow the country forgot to tell Frisco that the Right-on Sixties had become the New Mood Seventies, so like the Japanese hiding...
...origin of the caper dates back to 1972, when Vesco fled the U.S. after being indicted on charges of looting $224 million from Investors' Overseas Services, a mutual fund based in Geneva. Almost immediately, he began trying to persuade the Department of Justice to drop the case. He even contributed $200,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee, but to no avail...
...groups share numerous features; and, in fact, the celebrated G. & S. "patter songs" have their origin in the non-stop pnigos passages in Aristophanes' plays...
...determined to save what remains of their ancient national heritage. Explains Silvio Mutal, a Lima-based U.N. official who has been helping in the struggle to preserve Andean culture: "We are dealing with the birthright of whole races. It is vital that these artifacts stay in their countries of origin so that the descendants of their makers can see and learn from their past...