Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians of Peru are deeply uninterested in quite a lot of things. Some of the things that fail to stir their interest: hospital care, cleanliness, antivenereal treatments, vaccination, privies. Nor were they much impressed, at first, by Dr. David Glusker, nor by the fact that Dr. Glusker had been an instructor in Medicine at Cornell Medical School before he joined the Army last February. (Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs had discovered that Dr. Glusker knew a lot about tropical medicine and Spanish and whisked him off to the Tingo Maria district of Peru...
...part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While news flashes mistakenly identified the dead man as Ernesto, radio stations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina went off the air for periods of silence in his honor...
Scholastic'lly the school is highly rated, The curriculum is rather complicated, And by the time a student's graduated He hasn't learned a goddam thing Except to clear his throat and sing: Fight on for Tannenbaum! Regardless if you reside in Peru or Guam, Give your might for and fight for One, two, three, four, Five, six, seven, eight, nine, Tannenbaum...
...succeeded in making Clevelanders exceedingly health-conscious. Last week he made a splash in a bigger puddle: his Health Museum launched its first class for "interns" - 29 graduate students from North Carolina's School of Public Health, who will teach health the Gebhard way in the U.S., Peru, China...
...milestone in the history of South American relationships and power balances. Brazil's gesture brought her enhanced prestige, a significant indication of the leading role Brazil was gradually taking from her greatest rival, Argentina. Already Brazil has economic agreements with Uruguay and Paraguay, is heading toward another with Peru. Ultimate goal of the new Brazilian policy may be the welding of the Amazonian bloc: Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru and the Guianas. If this succeeds, Argentina, already out of step politically in South America, may find that Brazil has assumed economic leadership of the continent...