Word: camacho
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...hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the envy of visiting U.S. astronomers because of its latitude. Harvard's Harlow Shapley explained, "All the Milky Way can be seen-not merely the 60% or less which is satisfactorily explored from most northern observatories...
...President's Territory. When Mexico broke off relations with Japan, Italy and Germany last month, President Manuel Avila Camacho appointed ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas commander in chief in the Pacific area. The General set up his headquarters at Ensenada, onetime resort of jaded Hollywood playboys in Baja California...
Many a U.S. citizen has gambled, guzzled, bought souvenirs and knickknacks at Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Ensenada. Few have braved the one lumpy, unpaved road that reaches down to Baja California's tip. It was to patrol this area that President Avila Camacho obligingly sent troops to Baja California. Because the peninsula is inaccessible even from Mexico, he got permission to transport his soldiers by rail through Arizona and California (TIME...
...Mexico, bulky Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and consul general, celebrated the New Year with friends at the resort town of Cuernavaca. As the group drank up to "Viva Roosevelt" and "Viva Camacho," ten heel-clicking Germans Heil-Hitlered, split open Neruda's head with a blackjack. Next day five Mexican politicos formally offered to duel with the Nazis...
...influential Confederation of Mexican Workers (C.T.M.) pledged loyalty to President Camacho's domestic and foreign policies, its executive council tentatively approving nationwide compulsory military training for Mexican workers, both male & female...