Word: peru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More of Everything. He should have gone to Pinas Bay. An isolated jungle inlet, 150 miles southeast of Panama City, Pinas (or Pineapple) Bay is the world's hottest marlin ground, better than Peru, better than New Zealand, Hawaii or the Bahamas. There, swarming around a bait-packed barrier reef seven miles offshore, are more different kinds of billfish, and more of each, than anybody has ever seen before: big Pacific sailfish in such profusion that fishermen consider them a nuisance, literally thousands of blue marlin, silver marlin, striped marlin and the lordly blacks...
...KAMM Lima, Peru...
...have its face washed, whether old buildings (or people) should look young, whether decades of dirt add character or merely hide style. The issue of old and new comes out in a hopeful way in THE HEMISPHERE story about a sensible move toward land reform-at long last-in Peru. It shows its unhappier side in THE NATION story about this summer's new kind of agony as sociological change moves relentlessly on the Old South...
After eight months of political bickering, Peru last week had its first major land-reform program. The sensible new law is a patient compromise of three different bills introduced by President Fernando Belaunde Terry and two major opposition parties...
Rather than give the government unlimited expropriation powers, the legislation scrupulously exempts the large, highly mechanized coastal sugar holdings and efficiently run highland livestock ranches that are vital to Peru's economy. Instead, it aims mainly at haciendas of 3,000 acres and up that do not pay their way, are either uncultivated or marginally productive under present ownership. The landholders-whether private citizens, companies or the Roman Catholic Church-will be paid fair market value for their expropriated land in cash and 18-to 22-year bonds bearing 4% to 6% tax-free interest; livestock, buildings and equipment...