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...Noble Race. In such festivities, the little (pop. 10,000) Mexican town of Tehuantepec calls to mind the happy island of Bali Ha'i in James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific; actually, Tehuantepec is on an isthmus only 1,262 miles down the Pan American Highway from the U.S.A. Set in a thorny and desolate countryside, the town, watered by the Tehuantepec River, is a lush oasis, verdant with coconut palms and mango trees. But Tehuantepec's great traditional allure comes mostly from the beauty of its women, the famed Tehuanas...
Last month, the rainy season over, Dr. Ruz got a grant from Mexico's retiring President Miguel Aleman, and hurried back to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,where he pitched camp in the jungle near Palenque. With Assistant César Saenz he descended the 59 steps to the altar room. Carefully the diggers drilled a hole in the side of the stone block. As Dr. Ruz suspected, it was hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked...
...Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It was a great victory for Nicaraguan Dictato Tacho Somoza, convalescing in Boston after a major abdominal operation. "I am awfully happy," said Tacho. "Nicaragua is the best friend the U.S. has-and I love that road. It can transport troops across the isthmus if the Panama Canal should be blown...
...Twisted Isthmus . . . In population the land Chichi runs is one of the world's smallest nations. In area, it is also tiny, stretching for just 450 miles along the narrow isthmus linking the Americas -an isthmus so curiously twisted that from Panama City the sun is seen to rise out of the Pacific. The land's best known feature, the canal, runs through the ten-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Canal Zone which splits the republic. In the bisected nation, politics are fought out in a manner as twisted as the land's geography. Since the last election...
This week, carrying out a 1950 Act of Congress, the U.S. reorganized its $515 million enterprises on the Isthmus of Panama. Besides the main business of transiting ships from ocean to ocean and collecting tolls, the U.S. operates many auxiliary projects: railroads, steamships, commissaries, power plants, theaters. Some have been run by an efficient Government-owned corporation called the Panama Railroad Co., some by a sprawling Government agency called the Panama Canal. In the reshuffle, all business functions, including ship transits, were put under the railroad's corporate charter, leaving only Canal Zone civil government to bureaucrats. The expanded...