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...Stokowski decides to conduct one of the orchestra's 26 projected concerts, the event will take place August 10 in the acoustically perfect ball court of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Yucatan. Webster related yesterday that Stokowski, after testing the acoustics of the rectangular ball court many years ago, said: "I hope I never die before I can conduct here." A Mexican committee is inviting Stokowski to conduct...
...soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen beat the dying with a rope and urge them to get on with...
...only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at least five of them: he served as a lieutenant warden in a Texas prison, a teacher among the Eskimos, a civil engineer in Yucatan, a couple of high school teachers. And in recent months, says Crichton, Demara has been working on what he gleefully calls "the biggest caper of them all"-for details, watch your local newspaper...
Editor Grosvenor, 57, happily follows the principles set by his father, believes that "controversy" should be left to other publications. Last week Geographic staffers, their faces solemn and awestruck as any tourist's, legged it eagerly through Jamaica, Yucatan, Cambodia, Hawaii, Chile, Australia, Italy, India and the South Seas. What they sensed and saw would be pleasantly and blandly recorded, at the Magazine's leisure, in some future issue. No rush about it: a magazine whose color inks are mixed to stay brilliant 2½ centuries cannot be expected to hurry...
...people with a big sense of history, the Mayans even calculated time divisions to include a 400-year unit 1582 and ultimately an alautun (64 million years). It was, presumably, in carefully built astronomical observatories such as that in Chichen Itza on the Yucatan peninsula (opposite) that the Mayans perfected their calendar. Three square openings in the masonry walls fixed sight lines on the heavens for specific reference points, where the sun and moon could best be observed at their most informative stages...