Word: guadalajara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Nixons, joined by David and Julie Eisenhower, tootled out to the helipad in one of the fringed-top presidential golf carts. As Nixons and Johnsons shook hands all around, Francisco Ruano, resplendent in rich brown deerskin bolero and blue-and-silver sombrero, led his Guadalajara Boys mariachi of eight Mexican-American musicians in a fair approximation of Happy Birthday. The band was Nixon's own idea; he discovered it at El Adobe, a favorite restaurant in nearby San Juan Capistrano, and pronounced their sound "beautiful." After The Yellow Rose of Texas, Nixon exclaimed: "Now let's get that...
...Celanese Corp. of America has used Bufete for 26 jobs, Diamond Alkali for seven, Du Pont for 14, and General Motors for two. Among Bufete's present projects: a $20 million pulp and paper plant for Kimberly-Clark in Veracruz and a $30 million Kodak filmmaking plant at Guadalajara...
...criticism of Yorty stems as much from his attitude as from what he has or has not done for the city's minorities -which also include a 780,000-member Mexican-American community, the third largest concentration of Mexicans in the world after Mexico City and Guadalajara. Many voters have got the impression that Yorty has "stood up to the Negroes." He has scored Pat Brown and Washington for stirring up the hopes of Los Angeles Negroes, repeatedly blamed outside agitators for Watts's troubles. Doing little to cure slum conditions, he has concentrated on preventing new ghettos...
...spiritual pilgrimage to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and El Greco's Toledo as he did to the allegiance of his Indian blood. The sketch (17½ in. by 22 in.) for one of the figures in Orozco's mural in the rotunda of the University at Guadalajara is more than the record of a painter's solution to a difficult problem in perspective; it is in itself a master drawing in the great tradition of Western...