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Population. United Nations estimate: 3,048,000. A little over half are pure-blooded Indians; 38% mixed Indian-and-white, called Ladinos; the rest white. Nearly two-thirds are illiterate, and more than half of the illiterates do not even speak Spanish, using Indian dialects instead; 64% go barefoot. Nominally Roman Catholic, the Indians celebrate Christian festivals with pagan gusto, consult witch doctors oftener than the country's scant 200 priests. Guatemala City, the capital, is the only sizable city, with 293,000 residents; Quezaltenango, runner...
Like Doaithan, the fort was decayed and rotting. The signs of siege and uselessness were everywhere: overgrown paths, cracked-mud earthworks and rusting barbed wire. The two-platoon Vietnamese garrisons had long been immobilized, their mission-protecting the countryside from Communists and collecting rice-a bitter joke. The Communists-barefoot guerrillas, not even regulars-had even burrowed deep into the outer fort defenses...
...Pharisee. Mayor La Pira, who has been known to go barefoot after giving his shoes to a poor man, and regularly distributes food to the poor, pounced back with a long open letter to "the Rev. Sturzo": "You should experience what the mayor of a city with a population of 400,000 has to suffer, expecially when that city has some 10,000 unemployed, when some 2,977 young people are still looking for their first jobs and when there are many concerns starting to lay off people . . . More than 2,000 have recently been evicted from their homes...
...hand in a long time. He not only plays a wealthy Wall-Street type (complete with Homburg, furled black umbrella, Brooks Brothers suit and briefcase), but wins the hand of lissome Audrey Hepburn in Paramount's forthcoming Sabrina. In The Barefoot Contessa, recently filmed in Italy with Ava Gardner, he is a tough old movie director...
...have lived here all my life." The 300-lb. French restaurateur popped an olive into his mouth: "I came to Hanoi in 1945 as a sergeant-cook. I now have $30,000 invested in my restaurant, and I'm staying until I have to leave." Cried the barefoot refugee in a three-room house where 23 people live: "I left my village two years ago because there was shooting every day. Now there is no place left for me to go." The problem to the three men was common: Hanoi, their city, was in danger. "We have had many...