Word: mu
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...good reasons for his choice. U.S.-trained (University of Pennsylvania), Jesús Piñero had been an able spokesman of Puerto Rico's problems. He was a popular man at home. He was a close friend of the island's most powerful politician, Luis Muñoz Marin; with him Piñero had founded the now dominant Popular Democratic Party in 1938. The Insular Legislature had recommended his appointment...
Plato Was a Piker. Modern Atlanteans go far beyond Plato, peopling their imaginary lands with super-cultured inhabitants. Greatest extender of the Atlantis myth: Author James Churchward, who invented the "lost continent of Mu" in the Pacific. Its inhabitants, the originators of civilization, colonized Atlantis 20,000 years ago. Their ships entered the "Amazon Sea" through a canal cut through the Andes Mountains, then in the puppy stage. Other Muvian colonies: Egypt, Greece, the Mayans...
Patiently and learnedly De Camp disproves the Atlantis theories, except for the possible grain of truth behind Plato's original allegory. But the Atlanteans go marching on. Last week a comic-strip character, Alley Oop, who was born in Moo (Mu with dinosaurs), was exploring Atlantis by time machine...
Last week he continued to broadcast the theme to his listening neighbors. He knew that he had started something. Honduran Congress President Plutarco Muñoz had roared that "pines of Honduras really means that a revolutionary ought to be strung up on every pine in Honduras." The pine emblem had struck home...
...drink, smoke or chew gum. Stiffly genteel throughout, the chaperones simply ignored a man with field glasses who peered from a nearby sundeck into the solarium of the Senator Hotel when the girls assembled there (fully clothed). At one point the young ladies were inducted into a "sorority" called Mu Alpha Sigma, which was invented by the contest directors solely for Miss America entrants. Its motto: Modesty, Ambition, Success...