Word: ecuador
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...walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the extreme northern tip of Chile, the jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay and on to Argentina's spacious, glittering Buenos Aires where he arrived last week aged 14, approximately at the halfway mark ot his walk. With at least another 4,000 miles of tramping ahead...
Suing for Divorce. Elizabeth Staley Dickey, 40, first white woman to penetrate the jungles of Ecuador; from Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 57, explorer and archaeologist who in 1931 located the source of the Orinoco River; in Dayton, Ohio. Grounds: gross neglect. Wed in 1925, the Dickeys honeymooned in South American jungles. Said she on her return: ''Oysters, music and having one's husband all to yourself are all that civilization offers...
Through the Argentine to the Andes (he crossed them three times), to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador. Colombia. Panama, Central America, Mexico, Tschiffely & beasts plowed through jungles, swamps, deserts, mountain passes, across swinging bridges, in fair & foul weather. Once Tschiffely, on a dark night, tried to drive his comrades over a precipice; their horse sense saved him. Once Gato refused to budge; Tschiffely found he was facing a quicksand. Tschiffely refuses to manufacture adventures, but admits that once he had to shoot in self-defense. He often had passport trouble and was occasionally taken for a spy, but by the time...
...Argentina. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...Banos, Ecuador...