Word: prado
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...into the ditch of mortality. Satirist Condon is not afraid to set up outrageously improbable situations to achieve his effects. In his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), an Achilles among criminals was brought to heel while trying to hijack Goya's The Second of May, from the Prado. In the current fable, a brilliant Chinese disciple of Pavlov-a sort of Marxist Dr. Fu Manchu-directs the capture, brainwashing and reflex-conditioning of an entire American patrol during the Korean war. Before grinning Russian brasshats, he shows off his success. The Americans puff contentedly on yak dung cigarettes...
...champion, tall in his crisp blue suit, threw his arms around Sponsor Harten in an abrazo. With tears running down his face, he hugged his mother and father, his seven-year-old sister and his five brothers. That afternoon at Lima's National Stadium, President Manuel Prado decorated him with the Sporting Laurel of Peru (First Degree). Olmedo posed with the Davis Cup. then played a fast exhibition match against a fellow Davis Cup team member, St. Louis' Earl Buchholz. Appropriately, Olmedo...
...Manuel Prado, banker and boulevardier, swept back in 1956 from eight years of exile in Paris to begin the process of uniting his divided country. He accepted Apra support for the presidential election, in return legalized the party when he won. For this, the oligarchs labeled him a traitor to his class. Actually, the Prado-Apra alliance may avert the class struggle between the oligarchs and the Indian masses that historians (mindful of the Mexican revolution) predict. Apra turned right and met Prado going left...
...Prado took over an economy that was (and is) basically strong and growing, if temporarily tormented. Its free-enterprising policies have brought $970 million in foreign capital, and between 1948 and 1957, gross national product almost doubled. At first Prado hiked wages and the budget too abruptly, and the U.S. recession dropped commodity prices: copper 44%, cotton 25%. The Peruvian sol dropped from 19 per $1 to 25. But Prado fell back on his banker's training, hiked customs as high as 200% on luxuries, clamped rigid reserve requirements on banks and stabilized...
...Prado cries: "I feel wonderful." One sign of his confidence: he bucked Peru's Roman Catholicism by pushing through an annulment of his 40-year marriage to a long-estranged first wife, then married Clorinda Málaga, 53, his great and good friend for 25 years. The danger of a military coup remains; the pro-oligarch army is uncomfortable in the new atmosphere, but otherwise Prado's course is paying off. He has repressed the Communists and helped nurture a middle class of 350,000 families that is moving into the middle ground between oligarchs and masses...