Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mountain Meeting. Riding the bus to the office and the university from his home in the Mexico City district of Santa Maria, López Mateos kept running into a fellow rider from the same district named Miguel Alemán. Alemán was already practicing law, and when López Mateos set out to arrange a pension for his mother as a descendant of a national hero, Attorney Alemán saw the case successfully through the courts. "From that time on," says López Mateos, "we have been friends." (López Mateos' mother...
...next foreigner was Yanqui Sam Houston, who defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and won the independence of Texas, which nine years later joined the U.S. In 1846 and 1847 the U.S. sent Generals Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor and Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott into Mexico to defeat Santa Anna again, seize all the land from northern California to Texas...
...Music Man. Santa Claus himself could not wish for more booming jollity...
...begin it does every year, and candidates will be provided with an ample supply of stories about the University and Crimeds to keep their families--and Macy's Santa Claus--amply entertained. Candidates will also be provided with an ample supply of beer and coke...
Scars of War. In the deadlock. Cuba increasingly shows the scars of civil war: food shortages, shots in the night, silent factories. Havana's flashy hotels echo emptily. Trains that used to go to Santiago now stop short at Santa Clara, in mid-island. Planes fly from heavily guarded terminals, the passengers frisked before they board...