Word: andeans
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...shoes showed the common ingenuity of the world's cobblers: a wooden Dutch shoe for the wet lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa, all done with the same careful skill. And outside, the museum will soon...
...really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (TIME, April 16, 1951)? The bones said to be Fawcett's were later proved to be those of another man. Then could Fawcett possibly have reached the mysterious lost city of "Z," the mother remnant of the pre-Andean civilization, which he was certain still stood in the darkest midmost of Brazil...
...marijuana, most of it destined for the U.S. Some of the dope was foreign-made, apparently lifted from medical stocks sent by other countries as friendly help in 1949 when an earthquake hit Ecuador. But much of it came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing. George White headed back toward his desk in Boston where, between traveling assignments, he is New England supervisor...
...Radcliffe Bureau Chief The CRIMSON, John Sack refuses to take this book seriously, steadfastly muttering that "it is a startling revelation of conditions within the meat industry . . . Second only to Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle. He is selling himself short. Sack's Butcher is a mountain, a treacherous Andean mountain given to icefalls and rotten ledges of snow. He tells how a pair of students--members of a Katzenjammer Kids mountaineering expedition from Harvard and Stanford--climbed that mountain in the summer of 1950 and very nearly lost their lives in the process. It is a fast moving story...
Until recently, only Andean Indians fished in Titicaca's icy waters, supplementing their meager diet by scooping up the lake's teeming, sardine-sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak...