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...impecunious orthodontist, Lopez Mateos was born in Atizapán de Zaragoza in Mexico state. While getting his law degree at night school, he worked his way teaching history and literature at a normal school. He started in politics in 1929 as a Socialist, switched easily to the government party when its chief offered to make him his secretary. He rose to Senator in 1946, managed Ruiz Cortines' campaign for the presidency...
Monthly expenses in Spain vary from $40 to $60. The most important Spanish Universities offering summer courses to foreigners are located at Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago, Seville Valladolid, and Zaragoza. In addition, Spanish language and history instruction is scheduled in special summer schools in Cadiz, Pamplona and Santander. The People's University of Segovia gives a one-month course on art history. Most institutions begin teaching early in July, with the Barcelona, Seville, and Valladolid universities starting in August...
MEXICO Medicinal Magic Though losing ground year by year, old Indian beliefs about the magical powers of brujas (witches) are still widespread in Mexico. Awaiting trial in Zaragoza last week were two women and a man who had killed a 19-year-old girl they suspected of casting an evil spell on their house; they had burned her body and scattered the ashes "so that the spirit of witchery would go away...
Dour General Zaragoza had never expected such folly. There was just time to open fire with the fortress' guns, and to move the infantry to the top of the hill. As the red-bloomered French Zouaves charged smartly up the slope, the barefooted Indians mowed them down with 1812 muskets. Then machete-waving cavalrymen, led by a young Mixtec Indian named Porfirio Diaz, rushed in from the flanks, and the veterans of Sevastopol and Solferino knew that they were beaten. Leaving 1,000 dead, Lorencez began his retreat toward the Gulf...
Maximilian's Masters. Twelve months later Napoleon III, having fired his general and studied maps of Puebla himself, sent 30,000 men to take the place (now renamed Puebla de Zaragoza), drive Juárez to the Rio Grande border, and install Maximilian as Mexico's emperor. But Mexicans had learned the meaning of the Cinco de Mayo. "You have fought the first soldiers of the day," said a patriot to the ragged victors of Puebla, "and you have been the first to conquer them...