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...have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico in Boston. The consul general, Porfirio Thierry Muñoz Ledo, attended the event, and activists entered a reception after the show with the aim of urging him to sign a letter condemning the actions of his country’s leaders as well as the Oaxaca governor. The strife in Oaxaca erupted with a teachers’ strike this past...
...Engineers; in Washington, D.C. A West Point graduate, Wheeler began his career during construction of the Panama Canal in 1911, and in the next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian war and, at age 71, directed a multinational salvage crew that...
Died. Major General Thomas F. Farrell, 75, U.S. Army engineer and key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb, who in 1944 was recalled from crash building projects in India (the Ledo Road, the pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis Andrew Pick, 66, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime (1949-52) chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...
...they were pulled out north by river boat and truck and dumped on the mountain village of Kohima, a collection of huts 5,000 ft. high in the jungle. Kohima was inconsiderable in the long, silent history of its mountains, except that it commanded the Imphal Road and the Ledo Railway, invasion highways. There the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kents, Colonel John Laverty commanding, took position on April Fool's Day, 1944. They had four days to dig in. There were 500 of them, and for the next 16 days they held off the 31st Japanese Division...