Word: tehuantepec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
South of the fence line, in the infected area extending all the way to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (where another, shorter fence will be built), veterinarians are experimenting with aftosa vaccines shipped from The Netherlands and Argentina. If they work against the Mexican virus, and if the government can persuade skeptical campesinos of the necessity of sticking a needle into their animals every six months, Mexico hopes at least to control aftosa. U.S. experts are bearish, point out that the quarantine-vaccination method has failed in Europe. Like most U.S. cattlemen, they believe that the only cure for aftosa...
...years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There have also been torrential rains that have blocked highways and washed seed from the ground...
Totem & Taboo. For his latest and most lavish book Covarrubias (and his Los Angeles-born wife Rose) worked on & off for six years. He first went to the isthmus in the early '20s, when it was still possible to find the Tehuantepec River filled twice daily with naked bathers splashing unselfconsciously in the brown waters. Since then he has visited the country almost every year, sketching the handsome tehuanas with their vivid costumes, necklaces of $20 gold pieces, and spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient...
...Cultures. With a popular caricaturist's quick, sure eye for the new and bright, Covarrubias is drawn irresistibly to exotic cultures. His special interest is what he calls "transculturation"-the effect of one culture on another. In Bali he saw an ancient culture untouched by the modern, in Tehuantepec another that had adapted Spanish culture to a native folk pattern. Last week 42-year-old Miguel was looking restlessly toward China and learning Chinese; he was thinking about a book on Orientalism under pressure from the West...