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...huge chunk of U.S. -owned property - the 400,000-acre Cananea Ranch. As thousands of peasants, swirling on the dry. sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared a legal holiday and congratulatory wires flooded the desk of President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Exulted Mexico City's Universal: "Cananea is at last freed...
Married. Ann Miller (real name: Lucille Ann Collier), 35, leggy, Texas-born dancing cinemactress (Kiss Me Kate), and longtime (since 1947) bachelor girl, who once frankly admitted that she was hunting a man, said "it would help if I could find a Texan with a few oil wells"; and William P. Moss Jr., 38, millionaire Texas oilman; both for the second time (his first: Oldtime Cinemoppet Jane Withers); in La Jolla, Calif...
...Policy. Treasury's Texan Anderson reached agreement with congressional Texans Johnson and Sam Rayburn to keep tax cuts out of politics, won a wait-and-see period. Result: notable absence of grass-roots demand for tax cuts helped Congress avoid political temptation, keep income, corporation and most excise taxes at present levels...
...happens all too frequently, those who approved did not phone. With the field left to themselves, the complainants gave network program directors a discouraging view of the audience they strive to please. "We just plain don't care to hear or read about the mess," wrote a Texan to NBC. Added a CBS fan: "What good does it do to make so many of us give up the only pleasures we have-our daily TV programs? Besides, it creates unrest and worry to thousands...
...miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road 26 miles. In Juneau too, as if insulated from the rest of the territory by the mountains, are those who are most vocal against immediate statehood, led by the Juneau Empire's Publisher William Prescott ("Alamo"') Allen, a former Texan...