Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market, but local price inflation has kept step, and only the country's famed gem stones are real bargains. In Peru, too, local prices have mostly caught up with the 1949 devaluation, but $60 to $80 a month will still rent a five-room apartment in a good Lima suburb...
...Stravinsky's Fire Bird Suite, the crowd was up and whooping an ovation. The only reason the audience let the orchestra quit after three encores was that it was time for the bullfights. The New Orleans musicians had left their musical mark on 22 cities and towns from Lima to Ciudad Trujillo before turning homeward last week. Verdict of a leading Mexican critic: "You have conquered Mexico...
...readers south of the border have, I must admit, been so favorable. Peru's President Manuel Odria sometimes thought TIME'S frank reporting unkind, but he never did anything worse in reprisal than to nickname our Lima correspondent, Thomas A. Loayza, "Mal Tiempo." In Argentina, Juan Perón found TIME'S views of his dictatorship so infuriating that he arrested our correspondents, banned the magazine for six years (1947-53). But that did not keep TIME out of the country. Our circulation in Uruguay, across the River Plate, trebled. Argentines crossed the river to smuggle TIME...
...President Odria make his unexpected gesture to APRA? Lima observers reasoned that: 1) he is genuinely anxious to run off a free election; and 2) having failed to form a coalition with Peru's right wing, he is now willing to dicker with the left for the votes he needs to elect a successor who will carry on his cherished economic program...
Died. James M. Leech, 46, boilermaker, onetime U.S. Army captain and prime suspect in the fire and ax murders (Jan. 7, 1946) of three fellow officers while they slept in a villa near Passau, Germany; of burns suffered when an oil-filled tank he was welding caught fire; in Lima, Ohio. After a series of bungled Army investigations in 1946, the case was reopened three times but never came to trial. Leech steadfastly claimed his innocence, was not officially charged with the murders until 1954. Charges against him were dropped last year...