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...journeyed to Piedras Negras opposite Eagle Pass, Texas. "Night came," he recounted later. "We took all our clothes, rolled them in a bundle so they wouldn't get wet, then waded across the river naked, holding our clothes over our heads." The wetbacks met "The Man" in a thicket. He took their money, then locked them in the truck. After 15 minutes on the road, the cramped Mexicans discovered that there was no ventilation. "The air was gone," Pantoja said. "We couldn't breathe. I fainted." Others managed to pierce two small holes in the roof, but there...
...controversy and even ignored a tip about the McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state insurance agency and the Big Thicket, the stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies are cutting the trees and spoiling the chances of saving it as a national forest." Backed by Dugger as editor-at-large, Olds intends to rekindle the Observer's old fire-and Texans can again expect to feel the heat...
Wilson's brilliant associate, onetime Rochester Lawyer Sol M. Linowitz, who two years ago left the Xerox executive committee chairmanship to become U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of the American States, made sure that the techniques could not be copied for some time. A thicket of more than 500 patents surrounds the basic xerography process. Meanwhile, the company is making machines that turn out copies-and therefore revenues -at ever faster rates. The 914 model turns out 420 pages per hour. Model 2400, launched 21 years ago, makes 2,400 pages of copy per hour. After a faltering start...
...months of this year. Internationalizing the world's capital markets is the single best hope for expanding them. Europe's Common Market officials have been disappointed by the slow progress made toward their goal of a free-capital market. Still standing in the way is a thicket of props, controls and discriminatory taxes on incoming or outgoing capital. Governments often tell banks and other financial institutions where and how to invest their capital...
...Behind a thicket of perquisites and protocol, the U.S. Senate has long guarded its majesty from the vulgar eye. It forbids cameras in the visitors' galleries, permits a member to edit gaucheries and gaffes out of his speeches before they appear in the Congressional Record, grants Senators a unique immunity from legal action for what they say in committee or on the floor. Thus last week when two Senators proposed that members lay their financial affairs naked before the world, the club's leading antiquary, Everett Dirksen, rose up in Dickensian outrage...