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Accompanied only by a half-breed guide, I have explored the seaward slopes of the Santa Marta Mountains inhabited by the Kogi Indians . . . Far from being reluctant to sex, the mama to whom I talked, professed interest and wonderment at my being one of the first white women he had ever seen. After cautiously inquiring if I was a wealthy widow, he promptly proposed. I did not stay long enough to disprove further Reichel-Dolmatoff's claims...
...imperial fashion, he has learned a great deal about running a restaurant. Recently, when he was told that a waiter captain had been rude on the telephone to an important habitue, Mike announced quietly, "If I ever find a really excellent captain, I'm going to breed the bahstid...
...author's analysis of the peril of the Western world is similarly extreme. "It still did not know," he writes, "or even want to know, two facts that it must know to survive: the meaning of Communism, the meaning of that new breed of man, the Communist." It would seem, however, from what appears in the daily newspapers, that the Western public possesses all the wariness it needs about Communism and that what it needs to know infinitely more urgently, if it is to survive, is the meaning of its own values rather than the meaning of values...
...Bluegrass is the city of Lexington (pop. 55,000). It has the largest Burley leaf tobacco market in the world, carries on a thriving business in cattle and sheep, and is the home of the University of Kentucky and Transylvania College. Its No. 1 business, nevertheless, is the breed ing, raising, selling and racing of thorough breds (as early as 1782 there were "race paths" around Lexington). Standard-bred trotters and pacers and the American saddle horse are also raised here...
Ready also commented that the 28 men were a "peculiar breed of students. There was not a manly boy among group...