Word: chapultepec
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...Mexican War. A West Pointer ('46, with budding Union General George Brinton McClellan and the Confederacy's George Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable on the battlefield and infuriating off it. His career in the U.S. Army came...
...waterworks, President Miguel Aleman spun a wheel that sent Lerma water surging down 40 miles of mountain ditches and tunnels and into the capital's ducts. For the first time in modern history, Mexico City (pop. 2,334,000) had a 24-hour water supply (except in fashionable Chapultepec Heights, where installation of special pumps had not yet been completed...
...joined hands with Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, voted for repeal of the Neutrality Act, supported Lend-Lease. From 1942 on, the Administration invited him to periodical conferences on postwar foreign policy; from these sessions emerged the idea of U.N. At the Chapultepec conference in 1945, Austin did a sterling job of bipartisan cooperation for inter-American friendship. A year later came his appointment as America's "Ambassador to the World" at Lake Success...
...Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma in honor of their laws separating church & state. Later, the rich lined it with great mansions; France's best landscape designer was imported to make it look like the Champs Elys...
Time also changed the Paseo. Flashy new hotels rose behind the Paseo's stately trees. Wealthy families moved west to Chapultepec Heights. Automobile agencies hung their neon signs in the old mansion windows. Finally, city engineers decided that the 19th Century Paseo should become a modern six-lane concrete ribbon...