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...occasion, the 72-year-old hero of the day, snow-thatched Hiram Bingham, ex-Senator from Connecticut (1924-33), ex-Yale professor and explorer, had come all the way from New Haven, Conn. He was greeted by an archbishop, a prefect, two senators, the mayor of Cuzco, and the U.S. ambassador. Together they celebrated the opening of a new highway up Andean cliffs to Machu Picchu (pronounced manchew peaktu), the ancient Inca capital discovered by Explorer Bingham in 1911. The roadway's name, proclaimed by Peru's President Luis Bustamante: the Hiram Bingham Highway (pronounced Eeram Bingam Igwye...
With liberation, Arsolians trustfully hoped for better times. Local Communist Boss Fabio Alimonti went to Rome. Dressed in his best shiny black suit, he faced Rome's prefect. Said he: "You take our water for your benefit and spill what you don't need. The people of Arsoli cannot be left to die. Find a pump to bring life back to our hills...
...When the prefect remarked that Alimonti used language far above his station, that his was no peasant's talk, Alimonti replied: "I could throttle my mother for having given birth to a clever son. I wish I were like other Arsolians who are ready to go down before your force. I cannot. I see things as they are. My fire won't let me sleep nor eat nor laugh till I see justice done." When Alimonti returned to Arsoli he believed that he had won his point. To the peasants crowding round him in the shadow...
Test Run. The first shipment of British-built Ford cars, the Anglia and Prefect, were landed in New York. The cars, smaller and more expensive than U.S. Fords, have four-cylinder, 30-h.p. motors and do 28 miles on a gallon of gas. The price, f.o.b. New York: $1,395.64 for a two-door Anglia; $1,620.95 for a four-door Prefect. Young Henry Ford expects to bring in 12,000, thus make his own test of the U.S. market for small cars...
Five years later, with an equally fine disregard for tyrannical tradition, Rugby's new Head Master Thomas Arnold picked up another ball. He modified the old master-&-boy absolutism into the prefect system of student government. Arnold's innovation soon spread, like the game of Rugby, through the English public (i.e., private) schools...