Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with both sides and partly because its peso notes became Mexico's first nationwide paper currency. (The bank's 20-peso note shows Benito Juárez, Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome de las Casas, the Dominican "Protector of the Indians.") In 1913, Rebel Leader Pancho Villa raided the bank's Torreón branch and took more than 150,000 pesos; later that year the revolutionary forces of Victoriano Huerta robbed the Durango branch of 100,000 pesos. A few years later, when the bank's entire executive staff refused to hand over...
This large, crude, simple vision may be vaguely familiar to those who remember Paul Muni as Juárez, Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa, or Elia Kazan's Zapata, which had Judases aplenty and Marlon Brando on the same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...
...York is 200 years away from its frontier," explains Governor Connally. "Texas is only 50 years from it. Fifty years ago, Texans were riding against Pancho Villa. That's history pretty close by. Here in Texas there is a first generation of city dwellers who understand the country. People who live in cities still know how to work hard, get up early, sew and cook. They still put up provisions and keep vegetable gardens. These are a thrifty people. These are people who say, 'If you don't need it, don't buy it.' Lots...
Born. To Richard (Pancho) Gonzales, 35, recently retired pro-tennis great, coach of the U.S. Davis Cup team, and Madelyn Darrow Gonzales, 28, Miss Rheingold of 1958: a third child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Major General Henry Clay Hodges, 103, West Point's oldest alumnus (class of '81), who was born on the frontier, was appointed to the Military Academy by Ulysses S. Grant, campaigned against Comanches on the Pecos, Moro rebels in the Philippines, Pancho Villa in Mexico, and led his 39th Division to France in World War I, before retiring in 1920 to an old soldier's place of honor at every West Point graduation since then except two; in Stamford, Conn...