Word: yucatan
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...worked on Judge magazine before she married Billy and, in 1930, helped him found the paper. She wrote movie reviews and a gossip column, kept up the column after the divorce ("I don't remember whether we got unhitched in 1935 or 1936 and whether it was in Yucatan or Honduras"). But Publisher Wilkerson, who once ran a speakeasy and later the Trocadero nightclub and is now part owner of L'Aiglon and LaRue, is a man of unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate Gwynn item...
...haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has worked in the Maya country for 40 years, is the man who discovered some of its most famous monuments and directed Carnegie's elaborate restorations in Yucatan. Even he cannot unravel all the tangles of the Maya past, but this patient, expert, profusely illustrated book is by far the best general survey of the mystery as a whole: who were the ancient Maya, how did their civilization arise, why did it fall...
...have had a population of 200,000 or more; its ruins cover several hundred acres, and include five temples, one of them over 200 feet high. Copan, in Honduras, has within its inner group of buildings a sizable stadium, sculptured stairways, terraces, pyramids. At Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan were colonnades, palaces, and a series of stone courts on which a basketball-like game was played...
When a connecting road is constructed from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Pan American Highway running through Mexico, Williams will operate a ferry between Cuba and Puerto Morelos. U.S. motorists from the eastern seaboard who want to go to Mexico City would save 800 miles of driving by taking the Cuba-Mexico auto ferry...