"How could Disney allow such a blunder, " marveled Lalo Alcaraz, a Mexican-American editorial cartoonist and founder of Pocho.com.

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In these heady days of American economic expansion and low inflation, his gloomy pronouncements may sound rather frumpy (Herblock, a cartoonist, always depicted Mr Martin in an old-fashioned stiff collar).

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