Word: bela
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Clearly having the time of their lives last week were Bolivia's President René Barrientos and Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Barrientos and Belaúnde were on a three-day inspection of the Peruvian link of Belaúnde's proposed marginal road, a 4,300-mile highway that will open up thousands of acres of isolated Andes back country, and follow the mountains from Venezuela down through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, linking up with highway systems in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil...
Bearhugs & Namesakes. Meeting in the small Peruvian border town of Puerto Patria, Barrientos and Belaúnde greeted each other with bear-hug abrazos, and made a few speeches. The party of 55 traveled on by barge, truck, foot and air, making up the trip as they went. Aboard his DC-6, Belaúnde manned the public-address system, describing the dense, steaming jungle below and every twist and turn of the marginal road. "That's the Tambo River," Belaúnde noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria...
...tiny village of Shanao, Belaúnde asked the name of a new bridge that was going up. "The Rio Mayo," answered a local official. "No," Belaúnde corrected. "Henceforth, this will be known as the Bolivia Bridge, in honor of the great Bolivian President." Not to be outdone, Barrientos announced that he was naming a small town on the Bolivian stretch of the highway "Fernando Belaúnde Terry...
...Hard Business. Among the handshakes and ribbon snipping, Belaúnde and Barrientos talked hard business...
Revolutionary Techniques. Sixty years ago, Kodály and Fellow Hungarian Composer Bela Bartok trekked into the Magyar countryside to begin collecting folk songs, and later Kodály evoked those songs to give his compositions a simple expressiveness (best known in this country: the suite from his opera Háry Janós). Finding that many listeners still lacked the training to grasp his musical ideas, Kodály decided to improve the education of children. "I used to think the ideal age for beginning a child's musical education was nine months before birth," he once...