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...with a roomful of the stuff-13,000 lbs., all told. (For his pains, Atahualpa was strangled.) Indifferently, the Spaniards melted art into bullion; their pillage increased Europe's gold supply by 20%, part of which went to finance the ill-fated Armada. To the modern world, pre-Columbian gold again has great value apart from its content as metal: its artistic worth...
...becomes an artistic Klondike. Laws in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama that attempt to curb the export of the "national patrimony" are by and large circumvented; if the gold is no longer exported in galleons, it nonetheless gets out. Last week a superb new collection of pre-Columbian art, "The World of Ancient Gold," opened at the Travel and Transportation Pavilion at the New York World's Fair (see opposite page...
...glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum, a religious effigy, and the weapon used to eliminate the faithful guard, a poisoned dart, were both made by pre-Columbian Indians in the jungles of Brazil. "The Maltecs were a mysterious people," somebody murmurs portentously and then goes on to add, "Who knows? A few may have survived, and now they have come to reclaim their...
...Columbian project works according to a plan similar to that of the first Argentine program. Four DAS members advise the Colombian National Planning Commission on its plans for economic development. In Colombia, Vernon says the planners already have a long-term strategy, but must be shown "how to make it work...
...Ever since Prince Albert masterminded the first one at London's Crystal Palace in 1851, world's fairs have been almost as frequent as revolutions. Many have influenced the architecture, the entertainment tastes and the commerce of their day. In the U.S., the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with its acres of white plaster palaces, has been accused of setting the cause of modern architecture back by generations; it also established the belly dance...