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...good deal about writing dialogue," and the blond, bespectacled Yaleman ('58) showed how well he had learned by winning the $10,000 Harper Prize for unpublished novels, which means that Harper & Row will publish his P. S. Wilkinson in January. C.D.B. has reached a certain critical plateau, however. Since The New Yorker published his first short story in 1962, O'Hara has read his work only after it appears in print...
Tiles & Horseshoe. The ruins, says Savoy, cover some 6 to 10 sq. mi. and stretch across three succeeding plateaus. The first plateau-roughly four times the size of Machu Picchu-begins at about 4,500 ft.; the second is at 5,500 ft., and the last, poking eerily up through a misty halo of clouds, may reach as high...
...first plateau, Savoy and Santander found a luxurious palace and at least 16 separate communities-built mostly of granite and limestone, and complete with fountains, gardens, courtyards, large terraced dwellings apparently used by Inca nobles, and 100 or so squat circular huts that probably housed lower-class Indians. True to archaeological expectations, a strong Spanish influence was evident-the result, old records suggest, of seven Spanish turncoats who came to live in the Inca capital. In the palace were two rooms with a Spanish-style connecting doorway rather than the single courtyard entryway that typifies pure Incan architecture. Savoy also...
Time to Leave. Savoy and Santander spent two weeks exploring the first plateau, made a quick survey of the second. Then their increasingly frightened Indian helpers started deserting. "Normally, they would be friendly and smiling," says Savoy. "But when we got them into those woods, they changed." On the 15th day, Savoy hurt his leg dodging a falling tree cut by one of the Indians. He decided to pull out. "We thought it was better to come back with pictures and maps than not get back...
...logical tool of prosperity, particularly since bad debts represent only 1% of total loans outstanding. Consumers have balanced the debt increase with a rise in personal savings, from a customary 7% of disposable income to 8.2% in this year's second quarter. Economists consider this a temporary plateau that will hold until consumers adjust to higher incomes, feel that higher savings could be a backlog of buying power to be used as 1964 goes...