Word: paracutin
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Mexicans saw the best show since Paracutin.* In the steel-blue air above the lofty capital, a group of 27 U.S. Superfortresses glinted in the bright, winter sun. Jet fighters streaked by. Inside Mexico City's brilliant, white marble Palacio de Bellas Artes, outgoing chief executive Manuel Avila Camacho gave over the red, white and green band that was his symbol of office, and an aide quickly adjusted it diagonally across the chest of angular Miguel Alem...
...Fakir was the most exciting thing seen in Mexico since a poor farmer's field at Paracutin split wide open and disgorged a little volcano. A lively row had sprung up between two powerful newspapers, El Universal and Novedades, over whether El Fakir's crucifixion was sacrilege. Universal, which sponsored El Fakir's show, finally overcame objections by getting from Archbishop Luis Martínez a statement: "I have nothing to say about this spectacle . . . because it is nothing that has to do with religion." Religious or not, many awed Mexicans gave El Fakir medals...
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