Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska-born Anabel Simpson worked four years in the Territory, most recently for the Army engineers who built our air base at Anchorage. . . . Chile-born Paz Davila turned 21 just this week, but she has traveled through Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and every Central American country except Costa Rica, visited Europe and Africa, lived four years in diplomatic Washington, and knows scores of Latin American newsmakers...
...Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities to come...
Died. Henry Charles Donovan, 74, for 40 years top-ranking U.S. wheat crop forecaster; of a heart attack; in Peru, Ill. Born & raised a farmer, salty, white-thatched Donovan developed his knack, a combination of instinct and statistics, as a farm-machinery salesman...
...Where will she fight?" they asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes...
Married. Manuel Ignatius Prado, 22, Oxford-Harvard-educated son of Peru's President, Wall Street bank clerk; and Natalie Kitchin, 20, San Francisco social ite; in Manhattan...