Word: andean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antonio last week, Physiologist Robert T. Clark reported to the Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere and Space (see SCIENCE) that a valuable lesson has been learned from the Indians at Morococha (pop. 8,500), a mining town in Peru's central Andean highlands...
...Rioja, a picturesque town of 35,-000 on the Andean slopes of northwestern Argentina, the little donkeys of the community are nicknamed plateritos, because they are just as lovable and usually just as hungry as famed Poet Juan Ramon
Many of the Andean Indians, says Newman, live so high in the mountains that the air contains only two-thirds or one-half as much oxygen, volume for volume, as it does at sea level. To get enough oxygen for the heavy work they do, the Indians have conspicuous barrel chests and outsized lungs, but they also have subtler adaptations to altitude. The pockets in their lungs (alveoli) have more capillaries so that their blood can capture more oxygen from the thin air. A mountain Indian has about two quarts more blood than a sea-level person...
...semicircle centered on Maracaibo, Peru was redoubling an oil search in its eastern jungles; Texas Petroleum Co. last week reached the 10,700-ft. level in its third test well on the Marañón River. Peru put particularly heavy hopes on the prospects in the trans-Andean jungle. Only last month the government sadly announced that not a drop of oil had been found in four years of drilling the once-promising Sechura Desert on the Pacific Coast. Though still a producer (from the waning field at Talara), Peru will have to import oil soon unless new fields...
...lobbyist into a closed session of the Senate Finance Committee which was considering a tariff bill of special interest to manufacturers. But politics was never his true province. An irrepressible adventurer, Honolulu-born Hiram Bingham led the first ascent of the Andes' Coropuna (21.700 ft.), discovered the famed Andean ruins of Machu Picchu. "Senators," he once said, "I understand not at all. I understand so much better the ethics and morals of explorers...