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...future and the past and the thoughts of men; he cured sick llamas and women & children, got rid of bad ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration as Paka-Jake swam: no mortal, sensible Indian would think of swimming in the holy water which is also ice cold...
...submitted to the Steinach operation. He went off to Majorca with a swami to translate the Upanishads-a rest somewhat addled when a visiting poetess, mad with joy over praise from Yeats, so conducted herself as to fall on a valuable dog for whose injuries the Peruvian Consul presented a bill...
...likely possibility in view of Army needs; 2) try to work out some system, such as Britain last week was planning to do for her Caribbean colonies (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, etc.). The British scheme includes buying up colonial products just as the U.S. is now buying Brazilian coffee and Peruvian cotton, and let the Caribbean countries use the cash for made-work projects such as road building and swamp clearance. Such a subsidy will cost Britain $24 million per year in the Caribbean, but might cost the U.S. less than $20 million in Central America...
Once stout supporters of President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, the brothers have subsequently decided that Arroyo, a good friend of the U.S., was a Ferdinand-the-bull in the Peruvian war, is now showing signs of timidity in the war against the Axis. With other ins and outs in Ecuadorian politics, they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact...
...shores of Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes where my wife and I are making anthropological studies of the Aymara Indians, we had occasion to attend one of their ceremonies which was designed to placate an important spirit. In deference to our presence, the Indian medicine men made additional offerings to this deity "so that no harm will befall the United States, and so that she may triumph over her enemies...