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...Cuzco fortnight ago, he ignored the hail of stones to walk two miles from the airport to his hotel. From a balcony, he warned the Indians about Communism: "Do not believe their foreign doctrines, do not believe in their paradise." When a delegation of Communists demanded "in the name of the people" that he leave town, Beltran replied: "I question your claim of representing the people of Cuzco. Good day, gentlemen." When the Red-controlled Cuzco Workers' Federation tried to run him out of town with a 24-hour general strike, Beltran saw to it that local police...
...narrow ledge of the high Andes, 75 miles northwest of the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, a handful of Peruvians and Americans met last week to dedicate a bronze plaque to U.S. Archaeologist Hiram Bingham and the mysterious lost city he discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
Romantic History. Hiram Bingham, Yale scholar and later U.S. Senator from Connecticut, set out on muleback in 1911 in search of the lost Indian city, which he was convinced was more than legend. For years there was talk of ruins located far above the Urubamba Canyon near Cuzco, but they were known only to a few local Indians until Bingham came upon "a great flight of beautifully constructed stone-faced terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and ten feet high." Bingham died five years ago, after spending much of his free time exploring and writing...
...Then, from Tampu-Tocco, which had flourished as the capital of the Quechua tribe, came a new King named Manco Capac. Around A.D. 1200, according to Quechua legend, he and his many brothers "set out toward the hill over which the sun rose" reached the ancient Amauta capital of Cuzco, settled there and began to rebuild the empire of his ancestors...
...recently returned from Peru, where a few days' stay at Cuzco enables me to reinforce the report of TIME Correspondent Rosenhouse in your issue of June...