Word: mazatlan
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...Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Airline clerks, however, sometimes have a way of being forgetful. Despite his assurances, the clerk neglects to put the package on the direct plane to La Paz. Instead, he routes it to La Paz via Mazatlan. Accordingly, it is put aboard a DC-3's leaving for Mazatlan at 10:15 and due there...
Stiff tailwinds whip the plane along, unexpectedly clipping minutes off the scheduled flight time. In a fateful contest unknown to the people on the plane, the tailwinds race the ticking bomb. At 11:05, 25 minutes ahead of schedule, the DC-3 touches down at Mazatlan's palm-fringed airport. The heavy package is taken off the plane and, while the DC-3 takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane...
...Three Marys-Maria Magdalena, Maria Madre, Maria Cleofas-lie off Tepic on Mexico's West coast, 60 miles out in the Pacific. They can only be reached by a wheezing, blunt-nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full...
...called battle of Mazatlan last week turned out to have been hardly more than whoopee, though at one time 1,200 were erroneously described as dead. Some day however the pepper battle of Cocula ought to be famous. The town itself is unimportant, but there is a church, and last week there was a machine gun in the belfry-a federal gun. "Sangre de Dios!" cried the captain of a band of Insurrectos which had surprised this little federal outpost, "Blood of Christ, bring me chili, bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward...