Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After blowing hot and cold for months over a barter deal with Russia-Brazilian cocoa for Russian oil-Brazil decided last week to say no. The backout was a victory for anti-Red advisers of President Juscelino Kubitschek, led by Foreign Minister Francisco Negrão de Lima...
...LIFE poll that asked: "Should this country take sides with the East, the West, or stay out of the cold war altogether?" In Caracas 68% felt that their country should be neutralist, in Mexico City 66%, in Buenos Aires 62%, in Montevideo 51%, in Bogota 49%, and in Lima 34%-"This," said Grace, "is a very rude awakening to the realities." Grace's suggested solutions: ¶ A Secretary for Hemisphere Affairs modeled after Britain's Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. ¶ Tax and other incentives to encourage U.S. capital to help build Latin America's industrial...
...survive if he accidentally lost his oxygen supply, and 2) can a lowly sea-level type achieve the High Andean's resistance to oxygen deprivation-but in a matter of weeks instead of centuries? Helping Dr. Clark get the answers were Drs. Alberto Hurtado and Tulio Velasquez of Lima's Institute of Andean Biology...
...weeks of inching up to its 14,260-ft. peak, airmen could exercise in an altitude chamber simulating 38,000 ft. without getting the bends, and they remained conscious for an average of 30 minutes at 30,000 ft. Drs. Balke and Velasquez took students from sea-level Lima to Morococha, found that after a few weeks they could work as hard as the oldtimers. But the highland natives still had one advantage: their lungs worked only half as hard as the newcomers' because they were twice as efficient in extracting oxygen from the rarefied...
Tobias liked being a fakir's helper; he got paid for it, and he needed the money. But it scarcely seemed a suitable way of life for an artist on a Buenos Aires Contvention grant. Tired of Lima, he set off over the Andes and made his way down Madre de Dios River toward the Brazil-Peru-Bolivia frontier. Unarmed, and with only a Roman Catholic lay missionary as companion, he finally pushed right off the known map into the green unknown. Three days out, the two found themselves surrounded by naked Amarakaires...