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...most himself, in his peroration. Said he: "The presidency brings no special gift of prophecy or foresight. You take an oath, step into an office, and must then help guide a great democracy. The answer was waiting for me in the land where I was born. It was once barren land. But men came and worked and endured and built. Today that country is abundant with fruit, cattle, goats and sheep. There are pleasant homes and lakes, and the floods are gone...
...Cover) Along the banks of the meandering Brandywine River, set on a bluff that overlooks nearby Wilmington, stands a cluster of buildings whose occupants are true men of mystery. Many of them work in perpetual semidarkness and others in rooms that seem as barren as the face of Mars. Some spend their days poring over books and others sit for hours staring through picture windows at the 115 acres of their campus-like enclave. The aura of the place is one of uncertainty, as if no one quite knows what will happen next. No one does know. That is what...
...revolt that overturned the tin barons and emancipated the Bolivian population from virtual serfdom. As President for all but four years since then, he pushed through needed tax reforms, redistributed land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable an economic climate that foreign capital began to flow in, bringing a modest boom...
...urban center in the East or Far West. Shady suburbs surround the "crossroads of the nation" in a long are of affluence. In mid-state, a broad swathe of black top-soil has nurtured corn and conservatism for nearly a century and a half. And in the South, a barren tableau of worn-out coal fields and sleepy towns--Cairo, Illinois, is closer to Mississippi than Chicago--is punctuated only by the Negro slums of East St. Louis...
...friend who was a better poet who almost got killed when they were swimming in an irrigation ditch, but who recovered only to die on a golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing bad poems while in the hospital anyway, and e) that the narrator has had some connection with California migrant workers. But the chronology and emotional connections are hopelessly muddled...