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...Dear Tula...
Trucks & Toothbrushes. By last week in a little town (called "Tula," like many another Mexican hamlet) 50 miles north of Mexico City, a sweating crew of some 30 workmen had laid down their shovels and picks to await the finish of Mexico's rainy season. Their patient digging, off & on for three years, had finally uncovered this important fact: The ruined pyramid, palaces, monuments and artifacts their spades had been turning up were those of ancient Tula. For two square miles, nine feet under the dry, caked earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains...
Quetzalcoatl Vindicated. The finding of ancient Tula is a feather in the pith helmets of two Mexican archeologists who followed their hunch it was there in the face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos...
Final identification of Case's and Acosta's diggings as the true city of Tula caused a sudden scrambling and realignment of the picture-puzzle of ancient Mexican history. It proved that the harsh, militaristic Aztecs .earned most of their civilized graces from the gifted Toltecs they had swallowed up 400 years before Cortez arrived. It proved that wandering Toltecs had inspired some of the most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over...
...knows the countryside. . . . His wife and his wife's sister were killed by the Germans because they found out that he was a partisan. . . . There were 33 men in Baidek's detachment, ununiformed, heavily armed and determined, roaming over the entire region between Bryansk, Orel and Tula, blowing up bridges, hunting down small groups of Germans, smashing trucks and ambushing artillery. . . . In one operation they freed 200 Russian prisoners. ... Of these 33 guerrillas, 19 survived, seven disappeared, four were killed in battle and three were hanged by the Germans...