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...President Victor Paz Estenssoro flew 665 miles northwest to Lima one day last week. It was a historic occasion. Ever since Chile defeated them in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Peru and Bolivia have sullenly blamed each other for their joint misfortune. But from the moment that Peruvian President Manuel Odría gave him a big abrazo at the airport, Paz Estenssoro was treated like a long-lost brother. Bands played, a Cadillac convertible drove the Presidents through cheering throngs. Paz responded: "Peru and Bolivia have an ancestral unity . . . There is now a new spirit...
Teams of WHO technicians are vaccinating Peruvian Indians, spraying Thai villages with DDT, training Pakistani girls in midwifery, teaching villagers in India to do a daily "twig-toothbrush" drill, using powdered charcoal as a dentifrice...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology (top right) an undergraduate peers up at the skeleton of a 50-foot sperm whale, while a young resident of Boston (top left) looks with some uneasiness at the worldly remains of a gorilla. At the left are two Peruvian mummies photographed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Below are samples of the ruins at Copan, Honduras-probably the best known example of Mayan culture at its palmiest...
...famed Peruvian singer combines her trick voice with the driving, big-band rhythms of Billy May. She growls like a bush-league Carmen, coloratours through the upper register like the Queen of the Night, and whoops like a jungle bird, but is it mambo...
...took the school's two-year course in artillery, and at 18 got his first command, a battery of two venerable cannon. After a stretch of teaching at the academy, Pérez Jiménez finished his own military education with three years at the Peruvian War College in Lima. By 1945 he was a major, and-like 16 other young war-school graduates -rebelliously resentful that his studies had brought him only low pay and petty commands under politically appointed generals...