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...bird islands off the coast of Peru are more than a fabulous sight to tourists. The birds are among Peru's chief assets: last year they produced fertilizer (guano) worth more than $30 million. Their value is on the increase because the Peruvian government's Guano Administration Co. has recently encouraged the birds to colonize the mainland. According to Ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy of New York's American Museum of Natural History, the company's management of the birds is one of the world's greatest examples of practical conservation...
...that knowledge was; no eyewitnesses stepped forward to refute or endorse it. Instead a host of rumors and lesser legends arose to pique the imagination with the suggestion that Hitler was alive and biding his time for reconquest; he was hiding out in Argentina, the mountains of Bavaria, the Peruvian Andes. The probate courts of West Germany, seeking to settle Hitler's estate, could establish no satisfying proof that the man was dead...
...Peruvian and Ecuadorian purchases of Hunters, Meteors and Canberras are also signs of another trend: Britain is pulling ahead of the U.S. in the Latin American jet air-power market. One reason is that the U.S. government is slow to part with up-to-date jets. Another is that the British sell their jets cheaper and on longer credit...
When Lima announced purchase of the 20 Hunters, a Peruvian Senator crowed: "This will place Peru at the head of all South American countries in jet fighters." Presumably he was talking about quality, not quantity: both Argentina and Brazil are far ahead of Peru in numbers of jet warplanes. The Latin American jet air-power picture as of last week...
With a stroke of the pen last week, Peruvian President Manuel Odria scratched Peru's name from the dwindling list of American nations that deny women the vote. In his oak-paneled office, he signed a constitutional amendment extending full political rights to Peruvian women. Only Haiti and Paraguay still discriminate against women, and Haiti does allow them to vote in municipal elections. Said Odria: "Now the Peruvian woman can elect and be elected. I believe that she is at least as well prepared as the men to make proper use of the suffrage...