Word: mexicana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico the joint venture accounts for 11% of the total $544 million U.S. investment in Mexico since 1950, includes many mergings of U.S. private capital with Mexican government funds. The Mexican government and the Celanese Corp. of America formed the jointly owned Celanese Mexicana, now grown 16 times into a corporation capitalized at $27 million. Other outstanding joint ventures in Mexico: Nabisco-Famosa (biscuits), Altos Hornos (steel), Tubos de Acero (a combine with Italian, French and Swedish capitalists to make steel pipe...
...over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE and in a $125 book (only 500 copies printed). Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated the pure chemical (he calls it psilocybin) that induced his experimental hallucinations...
Chaperoned Breed. When freed of ticks and internal parasites, Wright's eight Xolos throve and multiplied. In cooperation with the Asociación Canofila Mexicana (Mexican Kennel Club), he set up standards for the breed. A genuine Xolo should have no hair except a slight fuzz on the top of the head and the tip of the tail. The naked skin can be any color (dark brown or grey is commonest), but large blotches of pink are undesirable. The ears should stand up straight...
...Fiesta Mexicana (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC). First performance of H. Owen Reed's folk symphony...
...comparison, the famed Black Palace is almost a felon's delight. Colonel Francisco Linares, the warden, boasts that he runs it a la Mexicana, which means nourishing food, little work, the traditional weekly "conjugal visits" to cells by prisoners' wives. But the big Black Palace (official capacity 2,000) is crammed with 4,485 convicts, and 40 new prisoners arrive each day. Occasionally Linares must hold a cuerda a las islas-a roundup for the islands...