Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the picturesque, landlocked mountain republic of Bolivia was back on the map as never before in its obscure but violent 127-year history. Climaxing a long and bloody struggle, a new revolutionary government had nationalized the country's three big tin companies and placed their mines under a new, government-run Bolivian Mining Corp. It was the most important act of nationalization in Latin America since Mexico seized the foreign oil companies in 1938. For better or for worse, it made the nationalist government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro the most important since SimÓn Bolivar...
...wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling point at 12,800 feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath...
Bolivia is packed with such stark contrasts. It is a country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle...
...tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles and Chaco plains. With the aid of a $26 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, Bolivia hopes to finish a highway linking the mountain cities with Santa Cruz, capital of the plains, by late 1953. Brazil and Argentina are busy building railroads across the Chaco (see map) to open the area to the Atlantic. Bolivian nationalists, sponsors of a "March to the East," talk paradoxically of luring foreign capital to develop the long-neglected...
...Jaguar (by N. Richard Nash) seethed with action, pulsed with meaning, and added up to nothing. Closing at week's end, it told a melodramatic movie yarn that-loaded down with symbolism -made a lumbering stagecoach. The yarn, laid in mountain country, concerned a crusading young schoolmaster's struggle against the local villain who tyrannized over people, gobbled up property, caged up animals. Crux of the struggle was a hunt for an unworldly youth fleeing with a $900 inheritance. As a western, Jaguar lacked life because even its gunplay suggested a morality play. As serious drama...