The weird gnome villages of Mexico and Central America came to world attention last week, at the Pan-American conference of health directors in Washington, in the candid report of Dr. Miguel Bustamente of Mexico City, a Johns Hopkins graduate.
When night falls on the mountains south of the Rio Grande, human gnomes emerge from their huts and crannies. They are knobby-headed, big-eared, scaly-skinned creatures. Some of them are splotched with red, like rusty iron. Others are mottled with green, like stained copper. They resemble living pieces of their cordilIcras lit by the sun...
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