American High School - Anahuac Yearbook (Mexico City, Mexico)

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5- Most memorable of Mexico City disasters was the earthquake of 28 July 1957, which tumbled the Angel of Independence, caused 600 million pesos worth of damage and claimed 54 lives. L if 1 o more earthquakes? Some day we may eliminate earthquakes altogether. In the meantime, Mexican research shows the world how to live with them. l ,,.,., , I gear ' . 4 '-3 Y--me .r . a f ' Y. - .1fI'IH! ii in ' iii' Ti 1 A M. A - 1 I , I 2 ' - M L R J. ,V A Fl- ' ,F 4 ' .. ' .WW E K lp I xt. In soft alluvial soil, deep under San Francisco Bay, a four-mile tunnel will soon offer rapid east-west transit. Tests to determine whether the tube could resist full-strength seismic tremors were made at the National University of Mexico. l It is said that Mexico has the world's largest earthquake laboratory-Mexico City. And that if a building can be made to stand in Mexico City, it will stand through the end of the world.i So it isn't any wonder that the Engi- neering Institute of the University of Mexico should have a special' Depart- ment of Seismology. ' Or that the -city of San Francisco should recently send to thisl depart- ment, for testing, a model ofl its new underwater tunnel. The tests were per- formed on the Institute's room-sized vibration table, and resulted in design modifications, now being incorporated by San Francisco, that willlimprove the safety of the finished tube. It isn't surprising, either, that some of the world's most original ideas for coping with earthquakes should have been developed in Mexico. The highly successful Torre Latinoamericana, floating on its hydraulic foundations, has already inspired a dozen similar buildings. ' One of the latest ideas is to, cushion a building on two thousand steel bal- ,. ,ilIiiM rv 1 af!! W , ,, V - I -. g,,,,A x 4' ' ' Rf null I l . IW' ,A Deslggfgugzg fjjffjjitigpgiif K T'U-I.ICICIIIC-Ol'POO'l.lllllllllIU'li I which iwould abs?1b shock ' I , ', I , -I . .1 . A waves rom any irection. g My X, 7 I. .. f, ,r V !,'!,,,5 loons - and this idea is actually being tested now by Ing. Manuel Gonzalez Flores, one of Mexico's leading authori- ties on earthquake-proof foundations. Or maybe, some people believe, we should go to the root of the whole problem and attempt to eliminate earthquakes altogether. If we can catch an earthquake while its pressures are still forming, then maybe -. so one such argument goes - we can explode a few atomic bombs underground to shake up the earth's crust and relieve the pressures harmlessly. Whatever eventually comes of all this speculation, one thing is sure: that Mexico will have played a leadership part in the research and study that will have made progress possible. The Ford Motor Company - and its dealers, for that matter - have noth- ing whatever to do with any of this. But Ford is vitally interested in the future, and in any kind of Mexican technology that will make that future brighter for all of us. This advertisement is for everyone who shares that interest. Represented by its dealers in 115 cities of the Country

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