Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home in Arequipa in the southern Peruvian Andes, Olmedo was riotously paraded, speeched and kissed. He got time for only one much interrupted lunch at the little apartment on the International Club grounds where his father is combination caretaker and tennis professional and where "Alejo"-as he is called at home-grew up. Over his favorite dish, roast guinea hen, his mother sighed, "We have not seen much of you, and now you are leaving again. But I will be brave and will not cry." That afternoon, as she stood waiting for the plane that carried Alejo back...
...special tracking cameras for satellite observation. The one that has already been manufactured, though it was disassembled in early October, is now in operation at Pasadena, Calif. The others, it is hoped, will be ready by the beginning of next year. They will be located at Curacao, West Indies; Arequipa, Peru; Villa Dolores, Argentina; Maui, Hawaii; Tokyo, Japan; Woomera, Australia; Naini-tad, India; Shiraz, Iran; Cadiz, Spain, and Johannesburg, South Africa...
Campaign posters plastered the stately palms on Lima's Avenida Arequipa, crusted the city's statues, napped from every wall. Neon lights blinked political slogans, and the bellow of the sound truck was heard in the land. In Peru this week, the eight-year rule of a military strongman was coming to a surprising climax in a wide-open presidential election...
...single candidate that Odria at first proposed could have ignored APRA. But the mere announcement of elections a year ago stirred a couple of hopeful candidates to enter the race. At a boisterous rally for one of them in Arequipa in December, Odria's police panicked and fired rifles, wounding ten men. To stem the nationwide protest, Odria had to give amnesty to Apristas and change the election law to permit vote-counting in public at the polling places in the presence of opposition observers, instead of secretly, as in the past. A real election became a possibility; other...
...South African station was set up in the twenties, when the Boyden station was moved there from Arequipa, Peru. It offered prime opportunities for photographing the Southern skies, and had a 60-inch reflecting telescope. It was hoped that a definitive photographic catalog of Southern skies could be made there...