Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortly after his mother's death, José gave his fortune to charity and went off to Peru to enter the Franciscan order. Six years later, after he was ordained a priest in Lima's San Francisco Monastery, police were called out to control the admirers surging into the church to hear him sing his first Mass...
When it comes to high-altitude living, says plump Dr. Carlos Monge, director of Peru's National Institute of Andean Biology, the Andean man is in a class by himself. Last week in Lima Dr. Monge told scientists from 18 countries about his continuing researches in a subject on which he ranks as one of the world's leading authorities (TIME, June...
...ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo the rigors of adaptation, and the experience is often too much for him. Partly for this reason, Lima and Callao have one of the world's highest T.B. rates. Dr. Monge thinks Andean man's future is in the mountains. There, with food, soap and some books, says Monge, he might one day recapture the creative vigor of the Incas...
...Lima last week two ministers, three charges d'affaires, and the ambassadors of Brazil, Spain, France, Ecuador, Colombia and Great Britain had met in solemn conclave. Before the dark backdrop of the tiny Association of Amateur Artists theater, dapper, grey-haired Brazilian Ambassador Luis Pereira Ferreira de Faro announced to a hushed audience the result of their deliberations. The diplomats, aided by local intellectuals and journalists, had selected luscious Peruvian Ana Maria Alvarez Calderon as Beauty Queen of All the Americas...
...American Locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive, General Motors, Fairbanks Morse, General Electric and Lima-Hamilton...