Word: popocatepetl
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...Veracruz. The Red Army, which was supposed to win and was therefore given a slight edge in numbers and equipment, also outwitted the Blues. First Red move was to slam partly motorized infantry and cavalry into the only two eastward passes -over the massif formed by the famous volcano Popocatepetl and by Ixtacihuatl, "the Sleeping Woman"-through almost roadless, thoroughly inaccessible country...
...river Plate, that waters the land of the gaucho, to the sleepy borders of the Rio Grande, 120,000,000 Latin Americans last week came smack up against a fact. The fact was comforting to some, disquieting to others; but to all it was as huge and undeniable as Popocatepetl: that the U. S., either as Good Neighbor or as Colossus of the North, was definitely on the move...
Another fine example of creative work is found in the photograph entitled "The Bishop's Cantata." As the circular describes it, "Puebia Cathedral in a spectacular burst of evening light with Popocatepetl in the dim blue distance...
...Mexico City's Chapultepec golf course, 7,500 ft. above sea level in the shadow of 17,888-ft. Popocatepetl, mature peons with bare feet and huge straw hats caddy for sleek young Mexican businessmen, Rockefeller Foundation doctors, energetic members of the embassies. At Chapultepec last week, in the qualifying round of Mexico's national amateur championship, scores by Mexico's best golfers and a dozen U. S. visitors were almost as high as Mexico's best golf course. The medal went to Percy J. Clifford, Mexican-born Briton, for a 75. Johnny Goodman of Omaha...
...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...