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...regents had asked a faculty committee to recommend a suitable president. Six of the faculty choices had turned down the job; the other six, said the regents, were "charming and accomplished gentlemen [but lacked] Southern or Southwestern background...
Devil into Savior. A more spectacular example of Communist organizing technique is the ancient town of Albi in southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany...
...Penitentes of the southwestern U.S. began their famed, secretive Holy Week ceremonies, they added a new form of mortification to the lashes, thorns and vigils with which they traditionally atone for sin. The new humiliation: a lawsuit, the first in Penitente history. It threatened to bring some of the closest Penitente secrets out of the windowless adobe moradas ("purple houses") into the daylight of a civil court in Old Las Vegas...
Mammoth in the Bull Ring. The existence of human life in the southwestern U.S. during the late glacial period was confirmed in 1927 with the discovery at Folsom, N.M. of chipped stone "Folsom points" between the fossilized ribs of an extinct bison. Ever since, archaeologists speculated whether "Folsom man," following the herds of bison, horses and mammoths, had migrated south. The first shred of evidence that he might have was a fossilized mammoth tusk turned up last summer in the excavation for Mexico City's new bull ring. The tusk bore a deep incision which, said the archaeologists, might...
...Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Missouri Pacific; New York, New Haven & Hartford; St. Louis-San Francisco; St. Louis-Southwestern; Western Pacific...