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Most of them looked askance at the barren canyon. Jerry soothed them-they were supposed to live "close to the earth." Under his direction they put up shacks, built a fine water wheel (there was no water to turn it) and began scratching out vegetable gardens, and raising chickens and rabbits. A Beautiful Bible Tent for the Last Days was also erected...
Desert Trek. The sun killed many, too-although hundreds of them made incredible week-long treks across the barren Mojave Desert, carrying nothing to drink but a gallon jug of water, hiding under cactus by day and walking by night. Harassed immigration officials rounded them up in knots along the roads, in wholesale lots on farms, loaded them into yellow buses and took them back to Mexico. Last year 230,000 were caught in California alone. Most of them hustled back, were often caught again at the same job in the same field on the same...
...startling, to put it mildly, to read "Case of the Barren Mink" in your Feb. 19 issue. If the writer had concerned himself purely with the problems of the mink growers [whose female minks were made barren by eating the necks of "stilbestrolized" chick ens], we might not raise any questions, be cause that is a matter still to be decided...
...most part the sketches are excellent fun. There are some good songs, including "General Effect," "Knock Wood," and "Coo Coo Jug Jug." Toward the middle of the second act there is a barren stretch of four dull and sometimes insipid numbers that Director Walter Crisham could cut with no trouble. Without them the show would move quickly all the way, and would come closer to a reasonable length...
Director King Vido made some ghastly mistakes in planning details. While Richard Todd is holing up in some barren valley, he seems to be well supplied with hair tonic. Despite many days in the wilds, his pate is slick and well parted, his shirt perfectly tailored and his trousers finely creased. The ultimate example of Vido's misdirection is the marriage scene, in which the Justice of the Peace is equipped with a neon heart and arrow sign, twittering birds, and a record of Massenet's sickly-sweet "Meditation" from "Thais...