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Last week, after a flying trip to Yucatan, Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz said bluntly: "In my opinion the so-called Gran Ejido should be abolished." He could not have astonished his countrymen more if he had run naked across the Zocalo in Mexico City. Other public figures, wondering if Flores' statement could possibly have the approval of President Ruiz Cortines, waited for the Jovian thunderbolts to fly from the iron-faced Cardenas, still, even in retirement, the country's most powerful political figure...
...effort, but it has also given him an extraordinary education. Besides devouring the books of many nations, he has fed full on people and places, indulging his appetite for life as if "I was going to live 150 years." He speaks French, German, Italian and Spanish, has lived in Yucatan and Rome, Hong Kong and New Haven. He has sat at the feet of Gertrude Stein, stood by the sickbed of Sigmund Freud, acted as interpreter for Ortega y Gasset, hiked down the Rhone with Gene Tunney, hobnobbed with a Chicago gunman named Golfbag...
...stay. Eddie Rickenbacker predicted that within 25 years autos would be outmoded and airplanes would take over the transportation business. Juniors smiled and went home for the Christmas vacation and a whirl of parties. Some of the more adventurous looked with envy on the expedition that was leaving for Yucatan or listened wide eyed to accounts of the Mountaineering Club's attempts to climb Everest...
This week, some 800 miles farther along its west-northwesterly track, the hurricane lost much of its starch lashing the hardwood forests of Yucatan. But as it entered the Gulf of Mexico, the air was humid and hot-just right to regenerate the black storm...
...bird-loving National Audubon Society began its week with happiness; one of its prospectors had discovered a large flock of flamingos in Yucatan. A few days later, the happiness turned to ecstasy when gladder news arrived from Texas. At Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, the message said, a precious egg had been hatched. From it had stepped a baby whooping crane, the first ever born in captivity. Thus, according to the most respected count, there were 38, not 37, survivors of the once numerous breed of whooping cranes...