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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After centuries of living 2½ miles or so above sea level, says Dr. Monge, the Andean native has become "a climato-physiological variety of the human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Antenor No. I. Suzy came by her Antenor circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Antenor No. 2. Cristina's Antenor is the son of the late Bolivian Tin King Simón Patiño. Though the Patino holdings have been estimated at a comfortable $1 billion, Antenor has never been profligate (he once put in several tax-exempt years as Bolivia'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Some weeks ago, Bolivian Senator Tomás Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Two men went down with the tug. The other five crewmen managed to launch the small lifeboat. It, too, soon capsized. The only man who could not swim, Gerald Anderson, 17, managed to crawl athwart the upturned lifeboat. One by one the others lost their grip and went down. An...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Word from the Wise | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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