Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peruvian Indians, he explained, will sometimes try to pass for mestizos (persons of mixed blood) by moving to the cities and pretending not to understand their native language, Quechua. Such extreme behavior, Patch implied, is not necessary in Bolivia...
...offer these few comments based on several dozen experiences (with LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, peyote and banisteriopsis caapi) spaced out over the last decade. Circumstances of ingestion varied from solitary trial to controlled academic setting at Stanford U. and Harvard to watchful supervision by native curanderos in the Peruvian Amazon...
...more than two years the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegiate Athletic Association have been engaged in a vicious jurisdictional battle over who is the proper judge of amateur status. The conflict has achieved nothing and has produced several ridiculous situations. This summer the AAU told a touring Peruvian basketball team that it might be ineligible for the Olympics if it played NCAA college teams in the U.S. whose players were not registered...
...times. But the grand days of U.S. amateur tennis supremacy, like those of Ivy League football, are long gone. Since 1950, Australia's strong-armed youngsters have ruled the courts; the U.S. has won only twice, the last time in 1958-and then with a Peruvian, Alex Olmedo, playing as a member of the U.S. team. In 1960 and 1961, the U.S. could not even make the finals, bowing out both times to Italy in interzone competition. Last week the U.S. 1962 Davis Cup team ran true to form: it lost to Mexico in the American zone preliminaries...
...refused to be moved was U.S. Ambassador James Loeb, onetime executive secretary of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). As a liberal democrat he was eager to see Peru show its support for the democratic principles of the Alliance for Progress, and it was he who recommended when the Peruvian junta took over that Kennedy suspend diplomatic relations and withhold aid. Washington promptly did so, partly out of fear that military brass in other Latin American countries might be tempted to follow the example of Argentina and Peru. Last week, as Peru's generals seemed in peaceful command of their...