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Wisdom of Savages. Colonel Percy Fawcett first came to South America as a surveyor for the Bolivian government. Even then, at age 39, he was a stern, solitary man with childlike eyes and a mystical longing for primitive things. He found them: crocodiles everywhere, spiders that can catch birds, anacondas more than 60 ft. long that wail disturbingly in the jungle night, bloodsucking cockroaches, 2-in. biting ants, hordes of vampire bats, rivers full of stingrays, electric eels and shoals of tiny, man-eating piranha...
...with a bottle of Coke, told 50,000 cheering workers and peasants at La Paz's Sport Stadium that his revolutionary program of reforms was just getting started. Next, he shouted, would come free elections (with women voting for the first time), land reform and the reorganization of Bolivian finances...
Considering the somber economic picture before him, these were brave words from the President. Though tin has been nationalized, the tin companies have not been compensated. Until U.S. shareholders are satisfactorily reimbursed, the U.S. is unwilling to sign a long-term contract for tin. The Bolivian economy, lopsidedly dependent on tin income, is near collapse. Unable to get permits to import raw materials, the textile industry has sharply curtailed production. Foodstuffs, normally imported, including wheat, meat, rice and sugar, are in critically short supply. Teachers are pressing for cost-of-living pay increases. The government has had to print more...
...deaths of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Miller, who were among the 55 (including Cartoonist Helen Hokinson) killed in a 1949 crash over National Airport. Claims against Eastern growing out of this accident may total $15 million; the Miller case is the first of these to be decided. The Bolivian government refused to accept legal responsibility for Bolivian Pilot Erick Rios Bridoux, whose plane rammed the airliner...
...Latin America who clung consistently to the view that the democracies would win World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object to some of your fundamental conclusions...