Word: patagonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...courses offered in the 150-page catalogue run from suspense ("The Hazards of Being Male") to adventure ("A Three-Week Study Tour of the Argentine Pampas, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego") and pop psychology ("Fairy Tales: Keys to the Psyche"). Indeed, the entire U.C.L.A. extension school is planned and promoted like a network's fall lineup of television shows. The similarity is no accident. "Our programs and those on television have the same threads," says Extension Dean Phillip Frandson. "Like TV, we mirror the needs of the public...
...trip from Tunisia to Nigeria, billed as "the most daring tourist program ever offered," is almost impossible to duplicate by private car. Conventional accommodations are expensive or nonexistent at most stopovers on Höltl's 7,000-mile Indian expedition or his 8,000-mile Peru-to-Patagonia haul. "We go to the interior, where the ordinary people live," says Jan Buchta, a veteran Rotel guide, who likes to call the tours "study trips. In Africa, for example, we not only show guests Nairobi and Mombasa but also the hinterland of Kenya...
...ashore the next morning, there is no mistaking what has happened, but the town fathers persuade Police Chief Martin Brody not to close the beaches. After all, it is the beginning of the tourist season, rentals are lag ging anyway, and with luck the thing will rumble off to Patagonia, or at least to East Hampton...
...rulers since the ouster of Dictator Juan Peron in 1955 is that the Peronists, who are chiefly urban workers, remain the most numerous political force in the country. Should Argentina return to entirely free elections soon, the Peronists could well win. Lanusse, who spent four years in prison in Patagonia for his role in an abortive coup against Peron in 1951, is not likely to welcome any return to the old Peronism. A more immediate concern for Argentina is whether the Pink House will once again exert its old magic and persuade Lanusse, as it did his predecessors, to forget...