Word: altiplano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before taking a cocktail or attempting anything so athletic as trotting upstairs. At the airport, 1,400 ft. above the city, no jets come in; Panagra's prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony...
...President Kennedy's desk last week was a 50-page report written by a three-man team*sent to Bolivia with orders to "review the status and effectiveness of U.S. economic policies in Bolivia." The fact-finding team spent twelve days in the barren, mountainous Altiplano, getting a first-hand look at the problems of a nation that is rich in minerals but little else...