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...look like it. From his Tegucigalpa house, boxes of arms appeared and were loaded into trucks. Soldiers were recruited, and promised pay of $2.50 a day. The force thus swiftly mobilized was uniformed in fresh suntans, and airlifted (in commercial DC-3s, at $400 a flight) to Macuelizo, Copan and Nueva Ocotepeque. Honduran hamlets on the Guatemalan frontier...
...projected Inter-American Conference of Nations, is Caracas' $7,000,000, 400-room Tamanaco. Bogotá's 400-room Tequendama and Maracaibo's 150-room Del Lago, opening later in the year, will finally give those cities first-class hotels ; and the 600-room Copan, due to be completed in 1954, will help fill the urgent need for more and better hotel accommodations in booming São Paulo...
...Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
...there were "countless" small ones, and at least 100 that were metropolitan enough to have temples, statues and hieroglyphs. Tikal, in Guatemala, may have had a population of 200,000 or more; its ruins cover several hundred acres, and include five temples, one of them over 200 feet high. Copan, in Honduras, has within its inner group of buildings a sizable stadium, sculptured stairways, terraces, pyramids. At Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan were colonnades, palaces, and a series of stone courts on which a basketball-like game was played...
Honduras. While tatterdemalion Christians sought refuge in the catacombs beneath Pagan Rome, the Mayas of Central America were spreading from city to city a glittering civilization. One such metropolis was Copan. Archeologists were at work there a half century ago, unearthing elaborately carved steles and sacrificial altars. Last year earthquakes rocked the region, sent some of the ruins tumbling into the Copan River. At the invitation of the Honduras Government, a commission from the Carnegie Institution of Washington arrived last month to undertake restoration and protection. Behind a collapsed wall Head Commissioner Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases...