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...Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit for the show's success...
...recognition of helping to advance scientific cooperation between the United States and Mexico, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican Government...
...Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...
...practice. He capped it off in 1940 by arranging a settlement between the Mexican Government and five companies whose oil the Mexicans had expropriated. For sending them a bill for something they had been getting free, the Mexicans handed Pat their highest decoration, the Order of the Aztec Eagle. Out of the oil companies Pat got such a six-figure fee that "I could afford to keep my stud horses...
...newspaper publisher, has ever before been decorated twice by the Mexican Government. First to make the grade is the Laredo (Texas) Times's Publisher William Prescott Allen, a collateral descendant of the historian William Prescott (The Conquest of Mexico). Fortnight ago he got the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Sixth Class),† plus a medal never before awarded to a civilian, Mexican or otherwise: the Military Order of Merit (Second Class...