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Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). How did the Aztec and Maya Indians - who almost surely never saw an elephant - come to put the big beasts in their art and writings? Johns Hopkins Geographer George Carter tackles the intriguing question in Elephants Are Where You Find Them...
...wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping the ephemeral sweetness of things. His garden drew from him a typically overtrained, anxious and caressing response: he found the lichen "as gorgeous as an Aztec or Maya mosaic," and the moss "of a soft emerald that beds your eye as reposefully as the greens in a Giorgione or Bonifazio...
Mitchum is an American who killed his first man at the age of 13 to avenge his father's death. He ran away to Mexico and grew up a pistolero in the service of a provincial dictator. While he says he is from Missouri, he sounds like an Aztec exchange student after six terms at C.C.N.Y. He fords the Rio Grande on a mission to the U.S. for his Chihuahuan master (Pedro Armendariz). There he breaks a leg, is forced to stay over for two months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town...
ARCHAEOLOGY holds no more compelling mystery than that of the Olmec Indians, who ruled the Gulf coast of Mexico even before the time of Christ. The well-known Mayan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations all stemmed from the Olmec culture, but their parent culture remains almost totally unknown. Practically all science has to go on is works of art dug from the jungle ground...
...Waterbibber. With this vision to inspire him, Soustelle has brought to his new job all the fierce energy he once devoted to political maneuvers. His appointments (ten a day) begin soon after breakfast, among fine Aztec and Mayan treasures in his book-lined apartment on Paris' elegant Avenue Henri-Martin. By 10 o'clock he is in the office, and he often lunches there, washing his meals down with water. ("You see in me," he chuckles, "one of the rare Frenchmen who do not like wine.") Dinner, too, and often evenings are apt to be business affairs, after...