Word: peruvian
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Gloria gets paid every time a network commercial is repeated, makes almost $150,000 a year (equaling TV's Jack Paar), lives in Beverly Hills and drives a 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III. With her four-octave range, which she claims matches the eerie range of Peruvian Vocal Acrobat Yma Sumac, she can take off from low C below middle C and soar to C above high C. But this endowment also drives Gloria to despair: nobody wants to hear her sing straight...
...Lima's broad and sunny central plaza, the Vice President of the U.S. reverently laid at the base of a monument to Liberator Joseé San Martin a wreath whose entwined flowers depicted the Peruvian and U.S. flags. Outwardly Richard Nixon was at ease and confident; inwardly he had to consider warnings from Peruvian police and his own security people to skip the next stop on his program, Lima's 400-year-old University of San Marcos...
...sent Nixon its regrets, and the San Marcos Student Federation condemned the attack as "barbaric." Nixon deplored the "violent and vocal minority that denied freedom of expression, without which no institution of learning deserves the word 'great.'" In Ecuador, where he went next, university students, traditionally anti-Peruvian, elaborately pointed out to Nixon that Ecuadorian manners are better. This week in Colombia, a crowd cheered him at the airport, but a Communist-led squad of students burned his picture outside his hotel...
...these smoldering grudges, the U.S. recession has added new coals. Peru, for example, fears Congress' threat to raise lead and zinc tariffs, which would throw 35,000 Peruvian miners out of jobs and slash the country's dollar supply. The Communists, exploiting the anti-U.S. opening, have raised the membership of their illegal party to more than...
...stay in Peru, Vice President Nixon placed a United States flag at the foot of a statue of Jose de San Martin. A short time later, leftist students ripped the flag to shreds as the police watched. That same afternoon, Mr. Nixon ignored the advice of his aides and Peruvian diplomats and went on the now celebrated visit to the University of San Marcos--"I want to emphasize it was not a personal affront to me. For example, one of the demonstrators spat in my face. He was spitting on the good name of Peru...." This interpretation is certainly noble...