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...Cinco de Mayo-Street of the Fifth of May-commemorating the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862. In that battle a Coxey's Army of Mexican irregulars defeated well-organized French forces of Napoleon III and postponed for a year the imposition of rococo Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Last week a Fifth of May parade through the streets of Puebla capped the exercises. Almost 10,000 marched before Mexico's military-minded President General Manuel Avila Camacho, and the parade marked the first public appearance of some new U.S.-made, truck-drawn 75-mm. anti-tank...
Correspondent Blauvelt duly noted this intelligence and backed out of the presence, inadvertently stepping on the tail of the Emperor's favorite dog, which let out a series of piercing yelps. Next morning the King of Kings mounted a twelve-foot dais and appointed three generals in his Army. His son, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, he appointed a lieutenant general. His son, the Duke of Harar, he appointed a major general. The son of his second cousin, Chieftain Ras Kassa, he appointed a brigadier general. The two sons each got a kiss on each cheek for good measure...
...Tennessee Valley Authority, affecting an area as large as England, with an amount of architectural structure that would have made a Roman emperor gasp, is a whopper. Like many a gigantic monument of the past (Egypt's Pyramids, Rome's Forum, China's Great Wall), TVA is built for use as well as looks. Like them, it will go down as one of the most permanent achievements of its civilization, may even remain a landmark long after its usefulness is over...
...Last week he found himself competing with 100 other schoolboys in the sixth annual Southern Prep and High School golf tournament. "I don't expect him to break 90 for his first 18 holes," said Father Jones, on hand to watch his son play. Not the least embarrassed, Emperor Jones explained his son's game: "He hits the ball a mile from the tee, a mile on the fairway, a mile on the green in almost any direction...
Young Bobby promptly fulfilled his dad's prophecy-and then some. For the first two rounds he posted 193 (95-98), 53 shots over par. "I got every penalty on the whole course," explained the Emperor's son. "I went out of bounds, I hit opponents' balls and did everything else...