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Fierro, the Sane. Impetuous young Emilio Carranza crashed to death in a New Jersey storm because he was in a hurry to fly back to his bride in Mexico City (TIME, July 23. 1928). Col. Pablo Sidar, "The Madman," laughed at bad weather reports and fell into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York...
...years ago Mexico's aviation idol, the late Capt. Emilio Carranza, laughed at bad weather reports, flew into a death-laden storm over New Jersey (TIME, July 23, 1928). Last week Mexico's new idol, Col. Pablo Sidar, called "The Madman" for his nerve, set out to capture the glory that had eluded his friend Carranza. In a special Emsco monoplane bought by public subscription, Sidar and Lieut. Carlos Rovirosa would fly from Cerro Loco (Crazy Hill) 5,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, the longest nonstop flight ever attempted. Rain and winds loomed in the South. Madman Sidar...
...days before he had enthusiastically approved a message of Emilio Portes Gil, asking the Governors of all Mexican States to close all gambling houses immediately. Unreceptive were the Governors of Sonora. Lower California, where elaborate casinos attract thousands of U. S. tourists...
...great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east...
...Himno Nacional Mexicano ("Mexicans! to the cry of war . ."). Detectives and police stalked up and down the rows of seats looking for possible assassins. Entered portentously the President-Elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, large-toothed and smiling, a green, white and red sash across his chest, accompanied by his predecessor, Emilio Fortes...