Word: chapultepec
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...greeted the President, Lady Bird, Lynda and Luci at the airport, and enthusiastic shouting crowds of more than 1,000,000-the polite official estimate was twice that many-lined the 9½-mile motorcade route to Mexican President Díaz Ordaz's residence in Chapultepec Park. The procession was often forced to crawl, and Secret Service agents, already tired by the rarefied (7,800 ft.) atmosphere, dropped back in relays for rejuvenating whiffs of oxygen from their own cars...
...individual object. Ancient Indian tribal music wafts softly through the 25 major galleries, each of which is a self-sufficient showcase of a different culture. Some 60 young women, scholars and linguists all, show visitors around. Views from the galleries lead the eye to the surrounding 2,223-acre Chapultepec park, where replicas of temples from each major period are placed like stage sets to dramatize the displays within...
...your the neighbors, Mrs. Dan Sweeney, "My kids hope he'll teach them to play baseball." Three months out of jail, where he served four years for inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later-crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some scaffolding of his own. But he has company...
...leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced plans for the year: 1) complete a mural at Chapultepec castle, the national museum, portraying the Mexican Revolution; 2) complete another for the national theatrical artists' union, and 3) go to Havana to start work on a project dedicated to the Castro rebels who died in the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's regime...
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS-New Art Center, 1193 Lexington Ave. at 81st. His huge mural left unfinished in Chapultepec Castle, Mexican Communist Siqueiros, 67, has for 31 years sat in prison serving time for "social dissolution." But the warden lets him paint, and his dancing brush creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. Through...