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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Puny on the Plain. Four centuries after the Spanish conquest, perhaps four out of seven million Peruvians still live in the Andes, speak the Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Antenor No. I. Suzy came by her Antenor circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Antenor No. 2. Cristina's Antenor is the son of the late Bolivian Tin King Simón Patiño. Though the Patino holdings have been estimated at a comfortable $1 billion, Antenor has never been profligate (he once put in several tax-exempt years as Bolivia'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Some weeks ago, Bolivian Senator Tomás Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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