Word: serrano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filipinos, the U.S. had acquired gg-year leases on 23 Philippine bases, and the U.S. Navy was running the town of Olongapo (pop. 60,000) almost like a unit of its own Pacific Fleet (TIME, July 20). Under the new terms negotiated by Bohlen and Filipino Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, the U.S. has now agreed...
...male and three girls--starting off together, then each little ballerina getting her chance to dance alone with the man, and finally the latter liking his three girls so much that he keeps them all--and apparently meant to lampoon it. But somehow the number, danced by Lupe Serrano, Ruth Ann Koesum, Catherine Horn, and Scott Douglas, was just corny, and the saccharine music by John Field did not help...
Felixbert Serrano, chairman of the permanent United Nations delegation from the Philippines will give the keynote speech on the topic, "The United Nations: A Review and Prognosis...
Ancient & Entrenched. In both Mexico City and Washington last week, top officials anxiously agreed that Serrano* and thousands like him had a point. By beefing up its border patrol, the U.S. has cut wetback border crossings drastically; deportations, which averaged 80,000 a month in the 14 months before last September, are now running at less than 10,000 a month. The immigration machinery is running smoothly enough to handle an expected record number-350,000 to 400,000-of legal migrant workers this year. The coyote and his "bite" are left as the machinery's only serious defect...
...Labor Department officials are deeply concerned, and Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has been trying hard to get guilty officials fired and jailed. But the bite is an ancient, entrenched custom in Mexico. Serrano, for one, could not wait. With 300 pesos, a big bite out of the savings that must provide for his wife and family while he is away, he paid the coyote. Last week he crossed the border and headed, literally and figuratively, for the lettuce...