Word: andean
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...thin, cold air of the Andean altiplano, Bolivia's two-year-old democracy fought for breath to live. President Enrique Hertzog, a doctor experienced in pulmonary problems, had pulled his patient through five states of siege. Last week a fresh complication set in. The doctor himself, worn out and suffering from kidney and heart trouble, took a leave of absence...
...Santiago, in sight of Andean glaciers, the temperature hit 92° one day last week. That day, 17,540 Chileans rode trains from the capital's hot streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
...Bingham, ex-Senator from Connecticut (1924-33), ex-Yale professor and explorer, had come all the way from New Haven, Conn. He was greeted by an archbishop, a prefect, two senators, the mayor of Cuzco, and the U.S. ambassador. Together they celebrated the opening of a new highway up Andean cliffs to Machu Picchu (pronounced manchew peaktu), the ancient Inca capital discovered by Explorer Bingham in 1911. The roadway's name, proclaimed by Peru's President Luis Bustamante: the Hiram Bingham Highway (pronounced Eeram Bingam Igwye...
...showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising were discredited. Another favorable sign: before the Andean rebels were squelched, APRA's paper La Tribune, announced that APRA too was "wholly on the side of the government...
...their final session, the delegates to the Inter-American conference rode out of scarred Bogotá to the white-walled home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...