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Some Third World regimes are also having second thoughts about socialism. Peru was pushed to the edge of bankruptcy by seven years of Peruvian socialism concocted by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, who was ousted in 1975. The country's new military rulers have substantially modified Velasco laws under which workers would have been able to wrest control of firms from their owners...
Aman thinks cussing is socially important-It releases pent-up emotions and reveals crucial information about culture and psychology. Among other things, he is studying the language of German prostitutes and Peruvian criminals, American college slang, Mojave insult gestures and the terminology of Chinese eunuchs. In an Olympics of world cursing, he believes that Yiddish would rank high, and Hungarian would win the blasphemy prize hands down. Also notable are Turkish rhymed insults, deadly serious Eskimo singing duels and a sneaky insult in Hindi that translates literally as "brother-in-law" but actually means "I slept with your sister...
...some 60 volumes per week to the TIME Books section in the hope that their works will be reviewed. As Christmas approaches, the incoming stream becomes a torrent in anticipation of our annual section on gift books, which appears in this issue. The new volumes-on subjects ranging from Peruvian highways to Sumerian icons, from precious plants to psychic phenomena-are delivered to the office of Books Editor Stefan Kanfer. "It's like getting a lot of Christmas cards," he says. "You are suddenly reminded not only of people, but also of subjects that you haven't been...
...anger, a young man's outrage at the contradictions between the way things are and the way they are supposed to be. As a student, he fought his asthma and walked the length of the South American continent, working for a time as a doctor in a Peruvian leper colony, and then as a sort of itinerant medic in the northern countries of the continent. What he saw made him angry, and soon he left for Guatemala, to join in the revolution there. It was soon put down by CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries, and Che would barely escape with...
...third quarter field goal by Peruvian soccer player Dave Schwartz (Dave Schwartz?) boosted the Eli margin to 10-0 before Whipple cranked up Brown's offense in the final quarter, as he hit Mark Farnham, gifted sibling of last year's Brown star, Bob, on a 52-yard touchdown pass with 13 minutes remaining...