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...been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues to bother the Mexicans, and Lopez Mateos gently prodded Johnson to devise a speedy solution. It concerns the Colorado River, which rolls through the arid U.S. Southwest and down across the line into Mexico...
...discussion after Khrushchev had concluded a most noisy diatribe, which he climaxed by removing his shoe and beating it upon the podium, Harold Macmillan looked up blandly into the TV cameras. "Would someone mind translating the gentleman's remarks" he murmurred. How caustic! How arid! How British! Now, imagine Red Skelton impersonating Macmillan. No more snap and crackle than yesterday's milk-logged Rice Krispies...
Against Columbia, Harvard raced in front, 7 to 0, but for the rest of the first half they looked awful. During one arid five-minute stretch, the team scored one field goal. Fine rebounding by Barry Williams and Bob Inman, coupled with a lousy performance by the Lions, enabled the Crimson to take out a 25-34 halftime lead...
...pine with an adze. And here was little Wells, earnest, honest, conceited, describing in his falsetto voice the British conception of a Secialist Utopia of semidetached villas with a pot of geraniums in each window. When the interview ended and our hero strutted out, Lenin gave one of his arid chuckles and said to Trotsky: 'Ah, the little bourgeois; ah, the little bourgeois!' That...
Another sweeping promise of the Mexican revolution was agriculture-land for the landless and food for all. Yet half a century later, less than one-tenth of the country's acreage is under cultivation, much of it in the semi-arid north and much of that belonging to the controversial ejido collectives. Peasants are guaranteed a plot of land, but the farms are small, dry and often uneconomic, rarely exceeding twelve acres. Peasant families have trouble feeding themselves, to say nothing of providing food for a nation whose population grows by 3.5% annually...