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Since Mexico for centuries was a cultural crossroads between two continents, its art is actually the native art of Amer ica. To eyes accustomed to European art (notably the 39 U.S. delegates who ar rived in Mexico City last week for the Inter-American Conference), it is some times shocking - sometimes repulsive...
...recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...
...Michigan: "I wish to inform you that no labor dispute exists between this company and its employes, despite attempts of certain groups of labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program of the nation to satisfy their greed...
...months ago Rev. R. Anderson Jardine had another call. This time it was up to him to save the U. S. from salacious magazines and other vile literature. He started to write a book - Wake Up Amer ica to Indecency. A friend thought it was just the thing for a movie. Four anonymous backers put up $100,000 for the production. A script was prepared, and the title stripped down to plain Indecency...
...Maryland line, started to head into Pennsylvania when rain & fog forced him back to Frederick, Md. Distance: 122^ mi.-14 mi. short of the world record . . . from Rockfish Gap to the Pennsylvania line. made from Wasserkuppe by Germany's late Guenther Groenhoff. Elated over the possibility that "Amer-ica's Wasserkuppe" had been discovered in the Blue Ridge, Jack O'Meara last week planned a 500-mi. sailplane flight from near Frederick, Md. to a point south of Nashville, Tenn...