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...community of Vicos is among the most fortunate of Peruvian haciendas. Through the efforts of the Cornell-Peru project and pressure from the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru last month expropriated Vicos. For the first time in many generations, Vicosinos own their homes and farm their own. Boasting a modern school built with local labor, a greatly improved standard of living, a clinic and a self-governing community council, Vicos is the home of a people who have attained a new degree of human dignity and self respect. It is only among a few old men that one finds...
...restore legality to the outlawed, mass-based political party APRA. Once in office, Prado tried to develop the nation by switching on the currency presses. The sol sank, the economy wobbled, and Prado came under the withering fire of such critics as Pedro Beltrán, publisher of Lima's influential La Prensa...
Caracas 150 Guatmala City 103 Santiago 95 Teheran 92 Baghdad 92 Montreal 92 Mexico City 91 Paris 90 New Delhi 90 Manila 89 Beirut 86 Bogotá Lima 84 Geneva 82 London 82 Buenos Aires 82 Rome 81 Karachi 81 Istanbul 76 Vienna 75 Rabat 75 The Hague 73 Rio de Janeiro 71 Copenhagen 70 Cairo 62 The U.N.'s survey was based on the experience of its own civil servants, who live on middling but tax-free incomes; thus the figures reflect not the cost of living of native citizens but that of foreigners living on foreign incomes...
...conspiracy, he seemed doomed to banishment from the corporate big time. Ousted from his $125,000-a-year job as general manager of General Electric's turbine division, Ginn a month ago accepted the relatively humble position of assistant to McClure Kelley, president of Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., makers of heavy machinery. Last week, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton moved Kelley up to board chairman and Ginn (pronounced as in "begin") into the presidency. Ginn's new salary is still undisclosed, but former President Kelley made...
...hacienda is called Sullupucyo, which in Quechua, the language of the Incas who ruled the Andes for 300 years, means "place of the fountain." It sits in an 11,000-ft.-high intermont basin 300 miles southeast of Lima, and covers 15,000 acres. The owner is Abelardo Luna, 35, who descends from the Spanish conquerors; he lives in a mansion in Cuzco and visits his property two or three times a week. To produce livestock and truck crops, the hacienda is worked by 500 Indian peasants known as colonos...