Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France are celebrating the anniversary of Lindbergh's flight. At "Spirit of St. Louis" banquets in seven cities, the Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Fund hopes to raise $500,000 for conservation, exploration and aeronautic research. His widow Anne Morrow Lindbergh, along with Sons Jon and Land and Daughter Reeve, is appearing at the dinners. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a special stamp showing the Spirit of St. Louis in flight. In Washington, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, where the plane is on permanent display, has assembled a collection of Lindbergh memorabilia - including...
...start. Somehow the myth was always askew; up until his death from cancer on Maui in 1974, Lindbergh remained elusive, difficult. Far from being merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying. At 25, he was tough, intelligent and probably the best pilot...
Charles Lindbergh was much taken with ecological and environmental issues in his later years, and all three of his surviving sons seem to have inherited his enthusiasm for nature, Jon, 44, is an oceanographer in Seattle. Land, 40, is, appropriately enough, a rancher in Montana, The most striking of the three, however, is Scott Lindbergh, 34, a preserver of unusual species in an unusual place...
There is a standing joke among journalists that the world will do anything for Latin America except read about it. The general curiosity seems to end with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
...have been shaped by the experiences of migration and cultural isolation. Modern Hispanic novelists have had the good fortune to share many of the same themes with their 19th century Russian counterparts-problems of underdevelopment, social and political injustice, gaping class divisions and a religious sense of the land and peasantry. Niña Huanca is yet another powerful example of what happens when a talented writer handles such ageless material with the spontaneous techniques of 20th century fiction...