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...against the iron-hard resistance of the Mexican campesinos (TIME, Dec. 8). So slaughter was replaced by quarantine and vaccination; a part of the substitute plan is the fence now abuilding. From a starting point on the Gulf of Mexico, it will run across the states of San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, then southwest to the Pacific at Puerto Vallarta. North of the line, which is guarded by more than 15,000 Mexican soldiers, 1,000 Mexican and U.S. technicians, there is no aftosa...
...Jauja, the conquerors themselves might have failed to increase and multiply. It was 53 years before the 20,000 Spaniards in Potosi, Bolivia (14,000 feet) produced a single child which lived more than a fortnight. The high Andes had no self-perpetuating white population until Spaniards born at intermediate altitudes moved up the slopes. Americans living at high mining camps today send their wives down to sea level as soon as they become pregnant...
...Many living creatures cannot reproduce when they arrive at high levels. "The Spanish Conquerors," said Dr. Monge, ". . . had no offspring until 50 years after the city [of Potosi] was founded." But natives there since colonial days have a birth rate equal to that at sea level...
Mexico's press reported Almazanismo dying in a flurry of blood and violence and trickery. Four Almazanistas said they had been arrested and tortured by Federal soldiers. More Almazán followers fled out of Rio Verde and San Luis Potosi to avoid persecutions of local caciques. Señora Higinia Cedillo Gonzales, who helped her brother, General Saturnino Cedillo, revolt and tried to do the same for Almazán, was reported kidnapped or murdered. Government men ransacked the house of Almazán's Provisional President General Hector F. Lopez...
...Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...