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...Manhattan's Town Hall one night last week, Conductor Eduardo Caso called his chorus into a backstage huddle. The big New York critics were out front, he said. "They can make us or break...
...Monte Alban. Hero of the occasion: Dr. Alphonso Caso, who was about to retire into politics, perhaps to be Mexico's Minister of Education. Dr. Caso, brother-in-law of mercurial Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, symbolized an era coming to a close. Under his direction, the ceremonial center of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs at Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, had been excavated. Digging carefully into the 60 square kilometers of overgrown mounds, Dr. Caso's men unearthed a dazzling complex of subtly designed stone tombs and religious buildings. In many they found golden masks and necklaces, carvings...
...Caso worked for 15 years, piecing together an elaborate culture which flourished until Spanish swords and crosses snuffed it out. A book about his painstaking work, to be published in a couple of years, will be a major contribution to New World archeology...
Died. Dr. Antonio Caso, 62, philosopher, onetime rector of Mexico's National University, ofttime envoy (to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Reported last words: "Finally I am going to know...
...proved that the harsh, militaristic Aztecs .earned most of their civilized graces from the gifted Toltecs they had swallowed up 400 years before Cortez arrived. It proved that wandering Toltecs had inspired some of the most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over whom he ruled deserved their reputation as the most civilized race that ever inhabited the sunbaked valley of Mexico...