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...Government's $540,000 Portillo Hotel were ready for skiers. Cost per person: $9 a day with meals. (Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 a day without meals.) Argentines and Americans, as well as Chileans, took the sun on Portillo's terraces, drank pisco sours†and watched the condors circle high above the glacial Lake of the Incas. Almost everybody turned in at 10 so as to be bright and early for the morning's fresh snow and perhaps a lesson from French ex-World Ski Champion Emile Allais...
Headed by Captain Langdon Durwell, third pisco winner in last year's heptagonal meet, fifty varsity and freshman harriers reported to Coach Jaakko Mikkola yesterday afternoon for the first official cross country practice of the season...
...SALVATION OF Pisco GABAR-Geoffrey Household - Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Rogue Male, twelve short stories as pungent as good Maugham, with at least one staggering piece of condensation: " 'I blame nobody,' said Gabar. 'We are animals. Will you have a drink...
Into the hospital at Pisco, Peru last month came a tired, ragged Indian woman from the foothills of the Andes. She led by the hand a shy little girl, scarcely three feet tall, with chestnut braids and an enormously bulging abdomen. Pointing to the frightened child, the Indian woman begged Surgeon Geraldo Lozada to exorcise the evil spirits which had taken possession of her. Certain that little Lina Medina had an abdominal tumor, Dr. Lozada examined her, received the surprise of his life when he discovered she was eight months pregnant...