Word: tacubaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
More sophisticated Mexicans took the comet in stride. At Tacubaya Observatory, Astronomer Guillermo Haro patiently explained over & over that there was nothing to fear, that the comet would soon disappear. Some tradesmen saw a chance to make money. A haberdasher advertised: "Comet Sale-Everything Goes Fast!" Gloria Duval, chic hairdresser at the Hotel Reforma, introduced a Comet Hairdo, an upswept...
...Tacubaya, Mexico...
When Candidates Avila Camacho and Andreu Almazán began their serious campaigning a few months ago, the pistoleros also began their shooting. Since then few days have gone by without clashes between camachistas and almazanistas. First, the rival gunmen got tangled up at Tacubaya, with one killed, two wounded. Next, at a Camacho meeting in Mexico City, Almazan men showed up uninvited and the result was one killed, 19 wounded. A few weeks later Almazán supporters riding on a train near Tlatilco were attacked by men shouting Viva Avila Camacho! Two were killed, "several" injured. An Almaz...