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...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...
From the age of 14 on, most Indians go on a mass toot for every festival of the Inca, Christian and national calendars. Bolivia's independence day, last Sunday, which coincides with the fiesta of the Indians' well-beloved Virgin of Copacabana, set off a Class One or seven-day bender. But even on less special occasions, the Indians' consumption of crude corn chicha reaches fabulous proportions...
Surrounded by its terraced fields, 11,000 feet up in the high Andes, the 900-year-old Inca capital of Cusco has endured conquistadors, tourists, fires, famines, and innumerable earthquakes. Last week Cusco (pop. 50,000) shook to new tremors. Ancient Spanish churches and precolonial Indian monuments which had survived even the great quake of 1650, toppled into the narrow, cobbled streets. In a matter of seconds, some 50 people were killed, 250 injured. One-fifth of the old stone-and-adobe city was destroyed...