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Basically, what you've got here storywise is a young man, played by Nelson, who's been away from his sleepy Florida hometown for a couple of years ("riding a burro through the Grand Canyon, hang-gliding off the Catalina Coast," you know, just some regular, low-key stuff to pass the time) only to come back to find out that his father, formerly mayor and general head honcho, has been killed in the interim. The circumstances of the late mayor's death are, of course, mysterious, so Billy turns amateur detective/one-man vigilante squad in order to find...
...Vermonter and his Chilean-born wife, stopped at the priory en route to Mexico, where they established a farm cooperative. That acquaintance eventually took the entire Weston community to Mexico on two extended retreats. First the monks spent a week visiting poor urban centers or traveling by horse or burro along narrow footpaths to remote villages. Another week followed in seclusion while the brothers reflected on how much they had learned about faith and Christian living from these simple people. Other friendships have taken the brothers on similar retreats to Appalachia, the West Indies island of Dominica...
...commercial hub is Sherman Avenue, where Harry's Hong Kong Tailor Shop is tucked alongside the base exchange. Gitmo has a zoo, but it has only a handful of animals: a pony and a burro and a few goats, rabbits, ducks and chickens. Because water is expensive, $7 per 1,000 gal, residents sprinkle their lawns with dirty wash water...
DIED. Carleton Beals, 85, itinerant journalist and authority on Latin America; in Middletown, Conn. Arriving in Mexico City by wild burro in 1917, Beals went on to witness and report four Mexican rebellions, Mussolini's rise to power in Italy, and General Augusto Sandino's guerrilla uprising against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the late...
...campaign to preserve wild-horse herds in the West; apparently of cancer; in Reno. Johnston's lobbying efforts resulted in the 1959 "Wild Horse Annie Law," a federal statute prohibiting the hunting of wild horses from aircraft and trucks, and the 1971 "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act," which gave the animals further protection. She was president of both WHOA (Wild Horse Organized Assistance Inc.) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros...