Word: nayarit
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Halfway around the world in Mexico, another of humanity's sorrows was turning to promise. Huddled into a corner of Nayarit state, the squalid hamlet of Tecuala had for years had contact with the outside world only through a dirt mule track. But in 1951 an all-weather road pushed into Tecuala, and the town got a small, 600-kw. generator. Within weeks, the power plant put new life into Tecuala. A modern street-lighting system was installed, a water-pumping system modernized; Tecuala's hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added...
When he arranged to visit his old army stamping grounds in Nayarit and Colima, he ran straight into the same old trouble that has dogged independents, left, right and center, since the days of the revolution. The merchants of Tepic, the capital of Nayarit, took ads in all Mexico City newspapers to proclaim: "On the day of your visit we have agreed to shut down all transport, restaurants, hotels and everything else. Placing gratitude to the regime of Miguel Aleman above our private interest, we repudiate agitation...
...Bellas Artes, suggested that Rivera give his collection a public airing. When art historians got busy on the collection they found that what they had long called Tarascan art, and knew almost nothing about, was actually a collection of several cultures in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. A German-born ethnologist, Dr. Paul Kirchhoff, was called in to lend a hand. He found that Rivera had one of the greatest treasuries...
Seven weeks ago J. E. Bristow, oil operator, set out into the thickly wooded mountains of the west coast State of Nayarit with an interpreter-guide, Mr. Fields, to prospect for gold and inspect a zinc property. A week later Interpreter Fields galloped into the dusty, desolate village of Ahuacatlan with a scribbled message. Prospector Bristow had been captured by Cruz Delgado, was held for $15,000 ransom. The Mexican police instantly clapped Interpreter Fields into jail...
...Texas banks to ransom his father. Largely because of the football prowess of son "Obie" at the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Times sent one Merle Blakely, staff writer, to assist and report the bandit hunt. From the railhead of the only railway in the State of Nayarit the Mexican Government hastily sent out a squadron of cavalry...