Word: incas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing off the rifles and pistols they had seized from government arsenals and routed army units last April during...
Strange World (O. A. Bayer; United Artists) sets some unreal movie doings against the real background of the Amazon. A young explorer, in quest of the golden Inca idol his father died seeking, not only discovers the statue but also a girl member of the original ill-fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed...
...started even before the Incas. Ever since, Peruvians have cherished the 40 million sea birds whose droppings make high-grade fertilizer (guano) for Peruvian farmers. In Inca days, the penalty for molesting the birds was death. Now the protection of the guano birds (cormorants, boobies and pelicans) is the care of the semi-official Compaia Administradora del Guano, set up in 1909 to develop the country's evil-smelling guano deposits...
...astonishment, she soared effortlessly up a full four octaves, began trilling like a canary at the top of coloratura. At the end of her first song, the audience was still too surprised to raise more than warm applause. The second, Tumpa (Earthquake), brought cheers; after the third, a pyrotechnical Inca Hymn to the Sun, the applause and cheers swelled to a roar for encores. Guest Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had a plane to catch, was obliged to break up the demonstration by launching his orchestra into Tchaikovsky's noisy March Slav...
...late Grace Moore heard her, promised to launch her on a career in the U.S. But shortly after Yma got to Manhattan in 1947, the famed soprano was killed in a plane crash. With husband Moises Vivanco playing the guitar and cousin Cholita Rivero dancing ("The Inca Taky Trio"), Yma sang at a Pan American Union concert in Washington in 1948. Demanded the Times-Herald critic, after praising her to the skies: "What's the matter with...