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...Milwaukee Journal, from Lima, Peru, where all newspapers are too timid to print stories about important scandals (such as graft and briberies), smirches and vices (such as horse betting and lotteries), please give my most sincere congratulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...Sears, Roebuck bought a site in Lima for its first retail store in Peru, its 25th in Latin America. Sears stores are already doing well ($75 million gross last year) in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: On the March | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...feet, slicing turkey and spooning oyster dressing, during most of the meal, which also included lima beans, yams, squash, peas, turnips, pumpkin and mince pies. David was back for seconds before the last grownups got firsts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cabin by the Pines | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Communism. He wanted to know why John Paton Davies Jr., who tried "to put Communists and espionage agents in key spots in the Central Intelligence Agency," is still a "high official" of the State Department. This was a standard McCarthy twister. Davies, now counselor of the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru, once got into trouble with the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee because of testimony that he had recommended Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Hercules at the Mike | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...quiet . . . Thank God the man was dead." Clark and the two others were saved for a banquet, but they escaped. The party had expanded along the way, but before they reached the settlement of Iquitos, seven had been killed, and Clark sent his malaria-stricken guide home to Lima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungle Thriller | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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