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...humorous diversion of no great moment, but it seems to attempt something more. Shephard gives us two American tourists in a Mexican hotel, confronted with a strange Mexican shoeshine boy who invades their room, rips out their phone, and gives them (and the audience) a brief exegesis of Mayan culture. As the American husband lies dying of dysentery before an absurdly funny witch doctor, the boy assumes his bed, his clothes, his role, and finally, his wife...
...than those bred in low hot places. Coupled with chronic malnutrition, this produces in the Indian an almost complete acceptance and passivity." This deep racism is almost totally unconscious, probably because the whites are somewhat schizophrenic about it, telling you of their Indian blood and erecting statues to legendary Mayan heroes. If the guerrillas have not totally eradicated this racism, it will make forming a rural base almost impossible...
From whom else could pre-mechamcal civilizations have learned to move the stones for the pyramids or the Mayan cities or the great carved heads of Easter Island? After all, asks Däniken, are not the legends of many lands filled with stories of godlike visitors from the sky, riding in fiery chariots or on iron wings, arriving like "birds of thunder"? Indeed, the book's only illustration is drawing of an ancient stone carving found in Mexico in 1935. It looks remarkably like a figure bent over an instrument panel in a space capsule...
RIDDLE OF THE MAYAN CAVE (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Explorers Club scientists travel to the Guatemalan highlands to visit an ancient cave used for Mayan ceremonial rites between...
...some years colleges have regarded summer loafing as downright sinful. Now they tend to take a dim view of jobs like stacking canned hash in the local supermarket. To achieve that pervasive cliché, a "meaningful summer," the applicant must raise his sights-help an archaeologist dig up Mayan tombs, perhaps, or watch some surgeon transplant hearts...