Word: trinidad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beshoar covers his mountainous territory via automobile, halftrack, airplane, jeep, saddle horse, and on foot. There is also the telephone and Beshoar's wide acquaintance with the people, the background history, and the current facts of the Rocky Mountain area. Now 42, Beshoar is a native of Trinidad, Colo. His father was a physician and surgeon there - as was his grandfather, who established the first drugstore between Denver and Santa Fe - in Pueblo, Colo, in 1866. Grandfather also founded four newspapers, of which only the Pueblo Chieftain survives (another, the defunct Trinidad Advertiser, provided the late Damon Runyon with...
...film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz (pop. 30,000) or Trinidad (pop. 7,500) an intrepid missionary rides forth to minister to the Indians, sometimes to be seen no more...
...Progress and the outside are things we know little about, sen∼or," said a white-suited old Bolivian in Trinidad, center of a declining cattle industry. "What we have here is tranquility." He spat into a mud puddle in front of the municipalidad (city hall). "There are only six cars in all of Trinidad. We prohibit them from running when it rains. They make mudholes and get stuck. Besides, they run down our chickens and pigs...
Trippers who island-hopped through the turquoise Caribbean were met at San Juan by a waiter with trays of Daiquiris. At Trinidad, they heard the calypso singers and the throbbing steel bands, and found everything up-to-date: the airport was an awkward 17 miles from Port of Spain. At musty Belem, they were met by the weird sounds & sights of the jungle and, in the air-conditioned bar of Pan Am's guest house, by a more startling sight-the statue of a single-breasted Amazon...
Honorable mention went to Eliot Hall's singers, who fitted their lyrics to Trinidad-type calypso music, and to Barnard Hall. Judges of the song-fest were Dean Mildred P. Sherman, Barbara Connolly '49, president of the Annex Choral Society, and William P. Russell, assistant director of Choral...