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Outside his home ground, Zapata was frequently regarded as an obstinate savage by the succession of national leaders who rose and fell in the bloody welter of an inconclusive revolution. What he and his people wanted was set down with forceful simplicity in the Plan de Ayala, the catechism of Zapatismo and a landmark document in the history of Mexico's agrarian reform. Perhaps the most important point in the plan was the one that called for the surrender of one-third of hacienda lands to the farmers...
Staying True. When the Constitutionalist Venustiano Carranza and his "new, nationalist entrepreneurs" became powerful in 1914, Zapata met his match in tenacity and deadly seriousness. The Carrancistas plundered, says Womack, "not for fun but on business." Zapata recognized that Carranza posed a serious threat to the Plan de Ayala. Even the thought of meeting Carranza's envoys filled Zapata with dread...
Cockroach Inspections. The Japanese are not the first to look upon Makati as a welcome escape from Manila. Once largely swampland, Makati has been developed since World War I by its most recent owners, the immensely successful (insurance, banking, cattle ranching and oil refining) Ayala family. Now one of the Philippines' most desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak...
...system at all." He was nowhere nearly as upset as Pancho Gonzales was when Gonzales discovered that he was required to serve from the 3-ft. line-thereby taking the steam out of his serve, the hardest in the game. Gonzales blew his first-round match to Chilean Luis Ayala, 21-18, then blew his top. He challenged heckling spectators to put their muscles where their mouths were, stormed over to Wally Dill, director of the pro tour, and snarled: "I hope you're satisfied...
...excuse. 'How can you be for open tennis?' they asked each other, 'when you know it will fall into the hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala, the U.S.'s Barry MacKay and Butch Buchholz. "But it soon became clear," wrote Kramer, "that my pro tour could not thrive on its own without open championships." So he decided to get out completely-in hopes that the I.L.T.F. would reconsider. Will it work? "That...