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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Taxco clings to the sharp slope of a barranca on the side of a bleached mountain 75 miles southwest of Mexico City. It looks like a miniature of Toledo in Spain; it is erroneously thought of in the U.S. as Mexico's Provincetown; and it has become by its recent development of exquisite silver crafts Mexico's Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fiesta at Taxco | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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