Word: puebla
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Honey is a tiny village in the pine forests that cover the high sierra between Hidalgo and Puebla. Last spring there was peace in Honey. Visitors found none of the tight sullenness sometimes evident in villages around Mexico City. The people were relaxed, easygoing, contented...
Down Mexico Way. But Subway Sam had not quit. From his three-room suite in Mexico City's gaudy Hotel Reforma, Rosoff continued digging into 1) the earth and 2) politics. Last July he completed a $10 million aqueduct in Puebla, Mexico for the Mexican Government. Now he is building a $45 million steel mill for Paul Shields, another contractor, who will own and operate the mill. He bought controlling interest in a lumber company in Chihuahua. Last summer he teamed up with Mexican bankers, raised $3½ million and bought control of the 500-mile-long Mexico North...
...stylized white stone head of Tlaloc, a rain god from the Mixteca-Puebla tribes, famed for their delicate gold jewelry and carvings on bone and wood...
Died. Maximino Avila Camacho, 52, Mexican Secretary of Communications and strident, notorious elder brother of Mexico's pious President; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. The death of the aggressively ambitious onetime cowhand, bullfighter and revolutionary left few sincere mourners among his countrymen...
...that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered to the floor. In jail, Avila Camacho later talked...