Word: incas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Philip Ainsworth Means, 52, cautious, round-faced anthropologist-ex-explorer, Inca lore expert, speculator about "the most enigmatic and puzzling building in the U.S.," the Newport, R.I. "Old Stone Mill'';* of diabetes; in Boston...
Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...
...short, fat, dark-haired Emperor, who earns his living teaching English, is a collateral descendant of the last reigning Inca, Atahualpa. He is the self-styled spiritual leader of 10,000,000 Indians and head of the unofficial Inca Monarchist Party. Now that white men are destroying each other in a global war, the way is being prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito...
President Prado presented his White House hosts with a hand-hammered silver plate, an assortment of ancient Inca pottery and water jugs; for four days went to formal luncheons, dinners and receptions. Then he addressed Congress-the first Latin American President to do so-and headed for Detroit...
...packing each item of its great Egyptian archeological collection-from tiny scarabs to half-ton granite statues-in jeweler's batting, sealing it with gummed tape, laying it in excelsior in a box, then in more excelsior in a wooden crate, which is again packed and boxed. Inca and other ancient textiles too fragile for shipment are being packed and stored within the museum...