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...milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...overgrown matador, and landscapers have turned a Texas-sized swamp into "Xochimilco," the lake garden near Mexico City. Coming closer to home, an Indian chief holds storytelling sessions. No-good varmints hold up the bank, the post office, the train, the stagecoach ride; and the legendary Judge Roy Bean administers his rule of "Law West of the Pecos," calling for the noose and provoking jail breaks. When amidst such adventuring a kid gets lost, he is sent to the Johnson's Creek School, where he has to sit at a slant-top desk until his parents reclaim...
Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: Orson Bean and Julia Meade in Send Me No Flowers...
...stag parties without icing distracts the hero for a time. But at last the moonship is fired. The scientists wait tensely for news. After two days it comes. Rocket haters will be cheered to learn that the first thing More sees at his landing site is a Heinz baked-bean...
...hasten the end of the old coffee system that piled up surpluses and lowered quality by guaranteeing government purchase of every bean grown in Brazil, Quadros promised coffeemen more exchange dollars for higher quality coffee, less for poorer grades. He also ended government purchase and storage of the bottom 10% of the crop (classified "refuse"), began burning the 7,000,000 bags of refuse currently on hand...