Word: garza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social pyramid by a new elite of rich cosmopolitan entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. Mexico City's Bernardo Quintana, for example, built the capital's famous subway system and now handles construction projects all over Latin America. Another highly successful family is that of Garza Sadas of Monterrey, whose investments in tourism and Grupo Industrial Alfa, an industrial conglomerate, are estimated to be worth $1 billion...
...politics and in Government bureaucracies. There are five Hispanics in the House of Representatives, compared with 16 blacks and 22 Jews. The Hispanics are Edward Roybal, 62, of California; Manuel Lujan, 54, of New Mexico; Robert Garcia, 45, of New York; Henry Gonzalez, 62, and Kika de la Garza, 51, of Texas. Since the defeat of the late Joseph Montoya of New Mexico in 1976, there have been no Hispanic members of the Senate. There is only one Hispanic Governor: New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca, and he cannot succeed himself when his term expires in January. Mexican-American ballots nailed...
...sixth slot, Chuck Elliott sent Armando Garza-Sada home to slide rules and calculators early as he won the lop-sided match, 15-5, 15-7, and 15-8. John Fishwick only gave up eight points in all of his short-lived outing against Lloyd Benjamin. In the words of Manager White Ford, Fishwick "gave him the donut," scoring a 15-0, 15-5, 15-3 whitewash...
Another proposal, put forth in a bill by Texas Democratic Representative Eligio de la Garza, is to kill the Postal Service and bring back the old Post Office under total Government control. The trouble with this idea is that it invites a return of the abuses and inefficiencies of the Post Office, which was inflexibly bureaucratic and ridden with politics. The virtue of a Government corporation is that it can make appointments on the basis of merit alone, transfer funds as it thinks best without bureaucratic controls, and plan ahead and borrow money for modernization...
...held up banks and businesses all over Jalisco State, of which Guadalajara is the capital. Another group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, has also carried out a campaign of bank heists and kidnapings, while the Spartacus Leninist League last year murdered Monterrey's industrial patriarch, Eugenic Garza Sada, 82. Yet a fourth group, the Party of the Poor, led by a former schoolteacher, Lucio Cabañas, operates from the rugged mountains of Guerrero State near Acapulco, where it is successfully eluding 10,000 army troops. None of the guerrilla groups are believed to number more than...