Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peruvian Andes, not far from Lima, lies a haunted valley. To be caught there after dark, natives say, means almost certain death. If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset. Workers on the Central Railway, which winds between the valley's forbidding mountain walls, insist on being taken home each night. Travelers through the valley dread to ride the railroad in the rainy season, for fear a landslide may maroon their train...
...years, bullfighting has been Lima's favorite spectacle. The great Pizarro, according to tradition, killed the first bull in a fight before the cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
...Back in Lima last month after a Colombian tour, 24-year-old Conchita, a slim, trim blonde with unforgettably cold blue eyes, was the talk and toast of the Peruvian capital. U.S. Ambassador Prentice Cooper stopped her on the street, introduced himself, gladly shook her tiny, calloused hand. Twice she fought in the ring-and brilliantly. She might have appeared oftener (at her usual $12,000 fee), but she was annoyed that Lima's new 30,000-seat bull ring, for which she laid the first stone three years ago, was still unfinished...
...sprawling Casa del Pueblo, Apra headquarters in Lima, baggy, beaming Apra Chief Victor Raul Haya de la Torre faced his weekly "leaders' class." This time the men on the hard benches in the whitewashed, barnlike hall got no lesson on public speaking or Peruvian finance...
...room Fifth Avenue apartment has an international look about it, with paintings from Hungary, France and Germany, chairs and sofa from Lima, rugs from Egypt, ornate gold-leaf mirrors from Mexico. On weekends, he and his wife, Edith, whom he married while she was a physical-education teacher in Shreveport, La., and their two children, Catherine, 17, and Eugene Jr., 14, go to their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that...