Word: viejo
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...Jose's Club Amateur de Pesca. The 62 entrants in this year's contest came from such chilly climes as Worcester, Mass., and included a group of 17 from Indiana. Flying into San Jose two weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon...
Mayan Lower Classes. Professor (of archaeology) Gordon R. Willey of Harvard has been carefully excavating a small ancient village at Barton Ramie, Honduras, which is 15 miles from the elaborate ceremonial center of Benque Viejo. The great temples and pyramids of the Mayans are already well known, but little is known about the people who labored to build them...
...medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy stonework. In the same way, thinks Dr. Willey, the peasants of Barton Ramie lived and died for the benefit of the priests of Benque Viejo...
Most fantastic of the week's stories concerned Costa Rica, the brave little Central American democracy whose teachers outnumber its soldiers. A shadowy Costa Rican politician known only as El Viejo (the Old One) was said to have assembled 1,000 men among the volcanoes of El Salvador, and equipped his force with rifles, machine guns, light field pieces, two light bombers...
...peasants, of course, are worsted, and the novel ends in a gush of bloodshed. A dying peasant gazes at a map. "So large a country," he says. "And there in the middle of it, like a heart, is Madrid. But our Tenorio Viejo is not marked. I have often looked for it. It is not there, though. It is too small, I suppose. We have lived in a very small place, Diego...