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...Aztec-Modern. The same lack of science in the political arena is largely responsible for the Mexican-American's lack of collective clout. Though the pochos are 90% Democratic by registration and traditionally vote the straight party line, they have received little in the way of socioeconomic remuneration for their loyalty. Politically, they fare even worse: only one Mexican-American, Democratic Congressman Edward Roybal, 51, has made it to the House of Representatives, and he, as many pochos point out, is a New Mexican-born aristocrat who pays little attention to the problems of the barrios...
Died. Walter E. Alessandroni, 51, Pennsylvania's able attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement...
Electrifying! Breathtaking! Scary! Bravado Bullfighter Manuel Benítez (El Cordobés), was performing again. Had the bulls been good? No, but the hailstorm was terrific, gasped the flamboyant matador as his six-seater Piper Aztec landed at Córdoba airport after passing through gusts at 10,000 ft. "It was awful. I've never been so scared in my life," marveled El Cordobés. A good thing he's been taking flying lessons, Manolo said, because at one point, "a gust hit the plane and the pilot was hurt, and I had to take...
...Epitaph Written. In his day, Orozco was acclaimed for what were considered his uniquely Mexican qualities. He drew his subject matter from Aztec, Mayan and Toltec mythology, the history of the Spanish conquest and the 1910 Revolution. His colors are violent and rough, like those of the native Indian pottery and fabric designs. His figures are powerful, primordial and violent; their every thrust calls out for social justice...
...than 100,000 relics, two of the finest are the Coyolxauhqui, a 1,543-lb. moon goddess of jadeite whose grinning face is fringed with golden rattlesnakes, and a Western Hemisphere familiar, the 25-ton stone disk whose signs and symbols marked the hours and seasons and mapped the Aztec universe...