Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incorporated Christian and pre-Columbian conventions and beliefs, even included Oriental designs (copied from wares that had been imported via Pacific trade routes). The results were too precocious to pass for primitive, and not subtle enough to claim genuine sophistication. But as two current displays of post-Columbian Peruvian art testify, at its best the mestizo style was both lyrical and inventive (see color opposite...
...showed Christ's bleeding heart pierced by Indian arrows, and the Three Wise Men journeying to Bethlehem on llama-back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...
...Deputy Petroleum Coordinator under the industry's old scourge, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Davies then founded American Independent Oil Co. (he has since sold his interest in it), later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges for gold in the Peruvian Andes, owns chunks of industrial land near Sacramento, runs a West Indian oil refinery with Standard of Indiana, holds large oil exploration rights with Sinclair in Java and along the Red Sea. Such far-flung operations have made Davies many times a millionaire; his Natomas shares alone were worth...
...projects have ignited Latin American imaginations more than Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry's "Marginal Highway." Envisioned as the key for unlocking the vast, virginal resources of the eastern Andean foothills, the road was originally planned to run 1,500 miles across Peru...
...most important factor in radio's power is that it hurdles the literacy barrier. "I cannot read and I cannot write," says a Peruvian mining peon, in some wonder, "but I am learning through my ears." Highly conscious of what can be taught through hearing, a group of Peruvian businessmen, political leaders and educators founded and funded ERPA (Escuelas Radiofonicas Populares Americanas) with the aim of making listeners "better farmers, better cattlemen and better Peruvians." Operated as a nonprofit venture, ERPA is sending educational broadcasts to people who live as far as 15,000 ft. up in the Andes...