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...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...
...whole generation of operagoers saw in Warren's burly figure (5 ft. 11 in., 200 lbs.) and big, "burnished voice the natural embodiment of opera's great villains-the grandly tormented Macbeth, the insinuatingly oily hunchback Rigoletto, the ravening Count di Luna of Trovatore. But he was also wonderfully effective in roles that called for massive dignity and restraint-Germont in Traviata, the title role in Simon Boccanegra. What Warren lacked in natural acting ability he more than made up with his remarkable and splendidly controlled voice; it had impressive size, fine texture and immense range. Warren even...
...million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much or more"; yet General Antonio Luna Ferreccio retorts for the brass: "Peru cannot be more disarmed...
...prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really is on the moon, he encounters various phony lunar marvels (including a tongue-twisting lunar language with phrases like "Luna lena lino lana lino lunala"). In the end, love conquers time and space, but what counts is expressed in one of the opera's jubilant lines: "It's a wonderful life on the moon...
...over the moon and various other floating islands may be slightly further off, but there will be ample chance for dispute here as there has been with claims in the past. Occupation of a territory has usually been the prerequisite to sovereignty over it, and the claim situation on Luna will probably follow that of Antarctica, where there is no colonization but many contested claims...