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...National Geographic article and 1975 book Youth in Old Age did much to advance the legend of Vilcabamba's oldsters, ruefully said that it was apparently all a hoax. Vilcabamba ("Sacred Valley" in the Inca tongue), it now appears, has no more senior citizens per capita than other Andean towns. In fact, the revelations of such gerontological high jinks are remarkably similar to earlier reports from Soviet scientists that some of their old folks may not be as ancient as they claim...
...unlikely choice, although Che was woefully ignorant of the Andean country's internal politics and character. This lack of familiarity later proved disastrous when the revolutionaries found themselves cut off, alienated from the Bolivian peasants who feared them, and isolated from the leftist students and workers in the cities who might have helped if they could. Bolivia is bordered by five countries, and Che hoped it would be the spark that would ignite the tinderboxes of its neighbors: Chile, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, and most important, Che's Argentine homeland. He also hoped to tie up the United States...
...people endure in extremis, whether on Andean mountaintops or in concentration camps, is a popular theme in an overpopulated age preoccupied with lifeboat survival theory. But West's characters clump about mouthing lines like, "We have all stepped back in time," or pondering jejune perceptions. Sample...
Survival, if by less dire means, is a subject for which Allan Carr has near-Andean credentials. He was hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood...
...Chileans and Argentines are already eying the mineral potential of the Antarctic Peninsula, a natural extension of the tin-and copper-rich Andean cordillera. New Zealand continues to call the region that includes McMurdo its Ross Dependency...