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Word: peruvians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Carlos Julio Arosemena. In two days of receptions, lunches and talks, the two Presidents discussed U.S.-Ecuadorian problems, but Kennedy often turned the conversation to the crisis in Peru, where Washington's stiff reaction to a military takeover was now embarrassed by the way the Peruvian brass seemed to be settling into authority without much public disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Summer Interlude | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Countdown for APRA | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...presidency in return for winning legality as a party. It also made an enemy of Fernando Belaúnde, a well-born architect who at 43 went into politics in a big way and cultivated wide support from both left and right with a spellbinding appeal to Peruvian nationalism. He lost to Prado by only 106,000 votes and blamed his defeat on APRA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Countdown for APRA | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...troll-eyed German high school teacher, Spengler looked at history not as a linear series of events but as the organic flowering and dying of eight major cultures: ancient Egyptian, ancient Semitic, Peruvian, Chinese, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Greco-Roman and Western. All had flourished for the same amount of time (about 1,000 years). All showed the same development. By comparing the dead to the living, the historian could tick off the inevitable signs of decay and predict how death would come again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gotterdammerung Revisited | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...holy habit or profession of our order those who are begotten on the side of either one of their parents of Indian or African blood," read the statute of the Dominican order in 17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave a selfless life of service to the friary and the city as a tertiary of the order. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mulatto Saint | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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