Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will tour of their own, down the west coast and over the heaven-puncturing Andes to Argentina. In Santiago crowds choked the streets outside the actors' hotel. But Romero missed some of the whoop-te-do: somehow he had lost his footing in another hotel, back in festive Peru, and now lay abed with a cracked elbow...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
...Peru-born Artist Vargas, on his own now, intends to put out girlie calendars like the ones he did for Esquire. The new Varga Girl too, for reasons unexplained, is going to be less sultry. Said Vargas: "She's teen-age and decent. She will wear little playsuits and be more covered...
...Peru ran off congressional by-elections. The dominant Apra party picked up a few seats in the House, but failed to gain a majority in the Senate. The chief congressional issue: re-servicing of bond issues floated in the U.S. in 1927-28. Apra wants to pay up, then get more U.S. credits. Apra's cotton and sugar baron opponents fight any scheme that would give Apra funds for its industrializing and irrigation plans...
Almost from the start, sales paid the workshop's way. Soon Peruvian Government officials began to take an interest. Men like Haya de la Torre, chief of the dominant APRA party, dropped in for a look and stayed to listen. Pipe-puffing Truman Bailey's program for Peru's back-country Indians,,they agreed, made sense. Now big U.S. companies (Westinghouse for one) are bidding for exclusive foreign sales rights. Bailey, who will stay with the, project, is not rushing into the export field. But both he and the Peruvian Government, which needs dollar credits, are looking...