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Healey lived with the Lacandones in their remote jungles. Little by little he learned some of their secrets. The Mayan "Old Empire" of the region had fallen long ago; tropical vegetation covered its ruins. But the handful of Lacandones still worship in Mayan temples, keeping the old gods alive...
Though not the most striking of Mayan "Old Empire" ruins, Bonampak is remarkably well preserved. Three stelae (record stones) have fallen on their faces, protecting their elaborate carvings from weather damage. Three intact inner rooms contain the most perfect specimens of Mayan fresco painting. In full color, Mayan kings, priests and warriors parade across the walls carrying umbrellas, waving fans, blowing horns and beating drums...
Morley believes that the great Mayan cities were slowly abandoned, one after the other, principally because of crop failures, partly because of epidemics, social disintegration, wars. The last great city founded was Mayapan, about A.D. 1000. It was sacked by local rivals some 450 years later. Within another century Cortes and his Spaniards appeared. Their conquest of the Maya lands was difficult and protracted, for the Maya were degenerate but they were stubborn...
Died. Lady Brown (Lilian Alice Roussel), 63, explorer, author (Unknown Tribes; Uncharted Seas), whose expeditions in Central America discovered the Chucunaque Indian tribe in Panama and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun in British Honduras; after long illness; in Rye, Sussex, England...
...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...