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Mexican Artist José Gutierrez, an instructor at the National Polytechnic Institute, has experimented with every kind of medium from ordinary house paint to the newest plastics to determine which can best withstand the elements. Last week Gutierrez made a gloomy prediction about Diego Rivera's latest mural in the water distribution chamber of Mexico City's new water system (TIME, June...
...Gutierrez' forecast: with 140 million gallons of water rushing past it every day, the submerged part of Rivera's mural will completely disappear within ten years. Diego's comment: "Tell him to go to hell...
...every 100 male cancer victims, ten have cancer of the prostate, but only one of the ten gets to a doctor in time for successful treatment. In the current American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
...millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions ran a gas station, the other a bakery. Pepe Castro shined shoes in the Plaza de Armas...
Outside, in the Plaza Murillo, where last July a mob lynched Dictator Villarroel, the news rapidly drew a crowd that swelled to 80,000. They seized Oblitas as police questioned him, propelled him across the square to a lamppost. There, while President Gutierrez shouted from his balcony, "My life is unimportant," they shot, then hanged Oblitas...