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...hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the envy of visiting U.S. astronomers because of its latitude. Harvard's Harlow Shapley explained, "All the Milky Way can be seen-not merely the 60% or less which is satisfactorily explored from most northern observatories...
...rescue MacArthur might take ships or seaplanes in force. Such an expedition could end in disaster. The General's wife and his young son (Arthur, 4) are with him. So are High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre, his wife, and Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines. Could MacArthur leave them? Could he leave...
Experiences of a summer spent travelling through the interior of Peru, voyaging by cance and balsa wood rafts as far as the Amazon basin and visiting the ruins of old Inca villages sacked by Pizzaro, were related yesterday afternoon by Berrien Anderson, Jr. '42 and Manuel I. Prado '42, in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...spite of U.S. fears that stiff, independent old General Emilio Aguinaldo (who led the Philippine Insurrection in 1899) might head a Vichyfied government, nothing had been heard of General Aguinaldo. A Jap-inspired rumor that Manuel Quezon's old friend and secretary, Jorge Vargas, had sold out to the invaders, in return for a job as mayor of Manila, was promptly squelched by Manuel Quezon himself. Said President Quezon: "I appointed [Vargas] Mayor of Greater Manila ... in line with MacArthur's plans ... to maintain order and prevent looting...
...Jungle of Peru" will be the subject of a free public lecture, illustrated by slides and colored motion pictures, to be given by Manuel I. Prado '42, and Berrien Anderson Jr. '42 this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration...