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Familiar Symbol. Mills and Smith photographed all the stones and reported to Professor Ignacio Bernal, one of Mexico's top archeologists, at Oaxaca City. Bernal recognized the style of the first stone. It was Zapotec, a relic of a high culture that centered around Oaxaca City and reached its peak during the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Until now, said Bernal, there has been no evidence that the Zapotec culture ever extended as far as the Rio Grande region. The carved symbols on the stone are probably dates, and they may be a help toward deciphering the hieroglyphic writing...
...other stones, "The Kings" and "The Queen," were even more exciting archeologically. Bernal had never seen anything like them. Only the big square symbol on the two figures was familiar to him. It has been found elsewhere in Mexico, in ruins as old as the 5th century. Bernal believes that further digging on the Hill of the Toad may tell what people lived in the secluded Rio Grande region before the Zapotecs came...
...Aleman family, and ignored the President's lively interest in a succession of actresses and other beauties. Hoy's publisher rapped Editor Pages sharply over the knuckles, told him not to be naughty again. Pages promptly resigned. Six other staff members also quit, including Cartoonist Antonio Arias Bernal, whose cover drawings had been Hoy's bestselling assets. Said a friend: "Pages had 3 pesos in his pocket when he left, but he isn't going to compromise. He is a Quixote...
...There are three or four portraits in existence with some claim to having been painted in Cortés lifetime. Bernal Díaz del Castillo described him around 1568 as being "of a good height and body and well proportioned . . . His chest was high and his back of a good shape, and he was lean and of little belly...
When other witnesses were just as positive in identifying him, detectives triumphantly packed him off for questioning. About all the police knew was that, like Roa, Bernal was a mystic given to double-talk about such things as "thought-transference wheels." They still had to prove that he even knew Roa or that he had any connection with the death of Gaitán. Next step would be a psychiatric examination...