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...Incas by Jacques Soustelle (Viking; unpaged; $35) evokes the grandeur of the vanished Inca empire and explains why a people who never used the wheel built such a road network. Hans Silvester's striking photographs capture the haunting beauty of sites like the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the sculptured faces of present-day Andeans and the ageless wonder of the paved Inca roads. Between them, Soustelle and Silvester manage to show why even the Spanish, who conquered the land of the haughty llama and high-soaring condor, were unable to change...
Nineteen forty-five was an important year for Neruda: he joined the Communist Party, was elected a Senator from Tarapaca and Antofagasta, two Chilean provinces populated by workers in the copper and nitrate mines, and wrote perhaps his most famous collection of poems, The Heights of Macchu Picchu. His decision to become a Communist caused him continual harassment; newspapers often would ignore his letters and censor his statements. He was briefly imprisoned in Argentina with no explanation given. Anti-Communist priests persecuted his poor friends and, finally, the Chilean courts ordered his arrest for criticizing the government, forcing him into...
...still busy an hour later and I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Instead they put me to work on a set of obituaries. Then when these were finished, they put me to work rewriting wire copy about an air crash near Macchu Picchu, Peru. When that was finished, almost everyone had gone home or had gone out for lunch at the China Pearl or J.J. Foley...
...From The Heights of Macchu Picchu...
...Lima, Savoy's find created the greatest stir among archaeologists since the discovery of Machu Picchu. "Although we have yet to explore the ruins carefully," said Dr. Luis E. Valcarcel, director of the National Museum of History, "I am almost certain this is Vilcabamba." Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry, himself an ardent amateur archaeologist, chatted with Savoy about possible government help for a full-scale return expedition...