Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think part of the problem is that few people realize the enormous importance of titles in the crazy, mixed-up, wonderful world of ours. Why, titles are the most neglected things next to Lima, Peru. Just try and imagine someone who wants to write a book called "Dog" or "Arm." He DOESN'T want it to be called "Dog or Arm." He simply wants his title to be "Dog" OR "Arm." What can he do? Perhaps you are beginning to see my point...
...Last week they brusquely reversed that judgment on the man who was once praised as Peru's Kennedyesque "architect of hope." Awakened, as he slept, by a burst of machine-gun fire, Belaúnde looked out of his window to find tanks outside the Presidential Palace in Lima. Some 50 Peruvian Rangers stormed into the palace and took Belaúnde into custody. Onlookers gathered as he was escorted out of the palace. "How do you like this?" Belaúnde shouted to them. "These are the traitors of the country!" The soldiers bundled...
...think of the continent civilized by cross and sword as a bastion of Christianity. It is something less than that. Although 90% of Latin America is nominally Catholic, probably fewer than 10% of the people practice what the church preaches. Thousands turn out for such semireligious spectaculars as Lima's festival honoring Our Lord of the Miracles, but grandmothers and schoolchildren are often about the only worshipers at Sunday Mass in the ancient, silent churches. In Brazil, perhaps 25 million people are devotees of a voodoo cult called macumba. Across the continent, the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects constitute...
Pedro G. Beltrán, LL.D., publisher of La Prensa, Lima, Peru...
Others receiving degrees at Commencement exercises today were Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Pedro Gerardo Beltran, publisher of La Prensa in Lima, Peru; Livingston T. Merchant, U. S. career diplomat; J. E. Wallace Sterling, retiring president of Stanford University; and two scientists--Nobel laureate Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin and geneticist-chemist Marshall W. Nirenberg...