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Talking Pottery. The Mochicas, and most other ancient Peruvians, buried sculptured pots with their dead. With painstaking detail, and sometimes with hair-raising sound effects, these pots show birth and death, work and play, war and worship. One famed example of the Peruvian pottery art shows a surgeon at work on a woman's back. When filled with water and tipped back & forth, the pot gives a long-drawn sigh, then a loud scream of pain...
...business is the neatly planned city of Chan Chan, whose massive ruins cover twelve square miles. Chan Chan, 30 miles north of the Viru Valley, was probably the greatest prehistoric metropolis in the Americas. Its culture lasted until 1400, when the Incas swept down from the High Sierras, freezing Peruvian life to such brittle rigidity that it shattered to dust when the Spaniards came...
...spent hours hacienda cola (sweating out the line) outside butcher shops. Last week, as a result of Argentine manipulations, the wheat stocks were down to a thin ten days' supply when the U.S. freighter Bert Williams brought in a timely 7,900 tons. Perón was after Peruvian oil, rubber, cotton-and an Argentina-oriented Peru...
Already Ganso Azul has brought new life into the Peruvian Montana. Indians who never saw a lamp come with bottles and even hollow canes for kerosene. With wicks stuffed into tin cans, they now have lights in their huts. A balanced diet of vegetables, fruit, beef, pork and chicken for the company's 250 employes has by example encouraged better living habits among other Indians...
...head came from barren Easter Island, where the natives are at a loss to explain the great stone images, up to 60 feet high, which dot the island. They say their old king knew all about them, but he and his court scholars were carried off by Peruvian slave raiders in 1862. More explicable objects...