Word: puebla
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...Shapley cited the observatory's participation in the Inter-American Astrophysical Congres in Mexico as the most interesting of the year's activities. On that occasion the new Astrophysical Observatory in the State of Puebla in Mexico was dedicated. Harvard had lent much of the equipment and Dr. George Dimitroff remained in Mexico for some weeks to assist in the instrallation of some of the equipment...
...hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the envy of visiting U.S. astronomers because of its latitude. Harvard's Harlow Shapley explained, "All the Milky Way can be seen-not merely the 60% or less which is satisfactorily explored from most northern observatories...
Then, with masterful use of cavalry, the Reds outflanked the Blues, who were concentrated at the town of Puebla. The Reds feinted an attack from the south, enveloped from the north. The maneuvers ended with a tactically foolish but visually exciting sham battle on San Juan Hill, north of Puebla. As planned, the Red Army...
...almost every town in Mexico there is a Calle de Cinco de Mayo-Street of the Fifth of May-commemorating the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862. In that battle a Coxey's Army of Mexican irregulars defeated well-organized French forces of Napoleon III and postponed for a year the imposition of rococo Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Last week a Fifth of May parade through the streets of Puebla capped the exercises. Almost 10,000 marched before Mexico's military-minded President General Manuel Avila Camacho, and the parade marked the first public appearance...
...good reason for discouraging troublemakers was that the President's older brother and chief supporter, General Maximino Avila Camacho, was on his way to Washington. Stocky, steel-hard General Maximino Avila Camacho holds no official post in Mexico. Onetime Governor of his native State of Puebla, he is now a gentle man of leisure. But he traveled last week with a semi-royal retinue of 14 people that included, besides his wife and children, a Senator, a translator from the Foreign Office, a newspaperman to handle publicity, a retired bullfighter...