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...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...
...Flea Bark...
Shortly after our departure, Ed Myers also traversed their territory, taking movies. After becoming friends with the Lacandons and doing them several favors, they told him they would show him a treasure of great value. When the mystic moment arrived, a cloth made of beaten bark was removed from the treasure, placed to protect it from temporal or spiritual harm. As you may have guessed, the treasure was the copy of TIME. . . . HOWARD F. CLINE Assistant Dean Harvard College Cambridge, Mass...
...last train out at night, Nuisance made it a practice to bark sharply at all sleepy sailors and tug their sleeves when the train slowed for the base. Nuisance slept, stretched out like a man, in a reserved bunk at Klaver Camp near Simon's Town, or at the Union Jack Club in Capetown, whichever was nearest, when he finished his chores...
...Cover) Off the wet rocks where the seals bark and the tides rip, a rendezvous with a new land this week awaited a big grey ship, a plain man in an austere suit, and a motherly woman with friendly eyes. Under the high, tense arc of Golden Gate Bridge, John Curtin, Labor Leader and Prime Minister of Australia, and his wife Elsie would be getting their first view of the U.S. where it looks the most like home. It had been late summer three weeks ago as their ship passed under Sydney's great bridge and between...