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...Communist and longtime Arbenz adviser, had an urgent personal problem: his wife was at the point of giving birth. The former Health Minister, also in asylum, delivered the baby, a boy, whom Fortuny gratefully saddled with the name Cuauhtéemoc, in honor of Mexico's last Aztec prince...
...soar to a ten-story climax where a great mural in reds, yellows and greens covers 4,800 sq. ft. In the center is a figure symbolizing La Patria, a woman dressed in Indian costume; above her is a Mexican eagle flanked by representations of Revolutionist Emiliano Zapata and Aztec Emperor...
...Murchison's Southern Union Gas Co., the foundation stone of his empire. Started as a gas producer and distributor, Southern Union's earnings were strictly limited by state utility commissions. Murchison "spun off" its gas-and-oil holdings into separate corporations, including Delhi Oil, Barker Dome, Aztec Oil & Gas, Arkansas Western Gas and Texas Southeastern Gas, whose earnings as producers were not regulated. Delhi Oil, the biggest of the children, has since wildcatted its way into 215 producing oil and gas wells in six states and oil reserves of more than 11 million bbls. It started hunting...
...actors along too in its gale. The workers, actual miners of the New Mexico local, carry conviction in their savage setting as trained actors could never do. The best of the worker-players is Juan Chacon, real-life president of the union local. Ugly and cold as an Aztec amulet, his heavy face comes slowly to life and warmth as the picture advances, and in the end seems almost radiant...
...worked as a daytime pants presser and railbed sweeper. He later went back to Mexico, where he taught art in public schools along with Covarrubias and Tamayo. His association with the Mexicans also had its influence on his work. Says Gonzalez: "We all came under the influence of Aztec art, Spanish baroque and Chinese and Japanese art . . . I am influenced by everybody...