Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...
...first seven days as Peru's President, José Luis Bustamante Rivero* restored press freedom and full civil rights to his countrymen, freed Peru's political prisoners. He had also fired 300 of the old regime's strong-arm men, cancelled gambling licenses and taken a good long look at the expenditures of the national treasury...
...that Peru has Bustamante as its President, the stage is set for change. Because Bustamante had stayed clear of partisan politics, he was able to fuse Haya de la Torre's radical Apra party, socialists and a handful of Communists and near-fascists into the victorious National Democratic Front. Now his problem is to hold them together while pushing through his social-reform program. The first test might well come this week when Congress (dominated by the Apristas) meets to act on Bustamante's program...
Peruvians, remembering that their new President is a spare-time poet, hoped that his political activity would show the same mixture of lyricism and practicality as his tribute to Peru's guano birds. They "leave a ... magic nitrogen fluid ... a concentrated essence of a longing for the sky, which . . . liberates the roots from the prison of the furrow, animates the stem, lifts the branches and raises flowers into the air-and makes the petal wings tremble like a little bird avid for space and freedom...
...these stories, of course, are about things which happened long ago and far away from Good Neighbor Peru (regarded as one of the South American nations most friendly to the U.S.). The tales were chosen by the author and screened by the translator to accent the quaint and unusual. Yet Ricardo Palma, if he has a U.S. counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life...