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Montezuma, Aztec Emperor of Mexico, is said to have sighed: "The Christians must have a strange disease which only gold can cure." Most jewelry from the era before Columbus went to cure that disease-nearly all of it melted down for shipment to Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...
Diego Rivera, famed artist and theorizer, blamed it all on the dry season, in Aztec times a period devoted to human sacrifice...
What the archeologists don't know about pre-Spanish America dims about 20 centuries of history. Much of what they do know has been dug up with scraps of Mayan, Toltec and Aztec sculpture. Last week a few of the existing clues to the Western Hemisphere's rich, mysterious cultural past were on display in Mexico City...
...setting for the conference, Chapultepec Castle, in whose park the Aztec emperors used to stroll, was symbolic. U.S. troops stormed the castle in 1847, and to Mexicans. Chapultepec means much the same thing that Bunker Hill means to the U.S. Among its defenders were teen-age cadets of the Mexican Military College, who are revered to this day in Mexico as the "Niños Héroes" (Boy Heroes) of Chapultepec...
...dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays's Rebellion...