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...MEXICAN desert: austere, stripped, inhospitable and unforgiving--an enigma to all but its inhabitants. It dares men to tackle it and survive; the "Old Ones" accept the challenge and win the necessary sustenance from this grudging and barren host. Their faces wrinkled and cracked like the adobe they have stolen from the earth, these Chicanos lead a life radically different from that of most Americans. Here churchbells are prefered to the telephone's ring, John Chancellor is voted down in favor of radio music, Sundays are for praying and old women pick up trash by the roadside. Necessity...
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...washed good looks belie it ("You look ten!" said Katharine Hepburn, his co-star in the recent television version of The Glass Menagerie), the 32-year-old Moriarty has been working hard in the profession for 15 years. "For a long while," he says wryly, "I felt like a barren tree. I knew there were a lot of creative juices inside of me and yet nothing was happening. Then in 1973 I finally bore fruit. Boy, did I ever! It was hanging all over...
...first view of La Paz, Bolivia's capital and largest city, approached from the west, is perhaps one of the most spectacular moments in world travel. From the border with Peru the bus jaunts along a stumbly dirt road for three hours through the barren spaces of the altiplano, the 14,000-foot-high plateau that covers the western third of Bolivia. Above the tree line, this gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts...
...clung to a strained detente with the Soviet Union. But political sentiments elsewhere still were expressed in the blood language of terrorist bombs and bullets, from Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely elected Marxist leader in the world was killed in a right-wing rebellion in Chile; a changing of the guardians refurbished authoritarian rule in Greece. For Americans, the dying finally ended in the paddyfields and jungles of Viet Nam, but more than 50,000 Vietnamese killed...