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Spain's burro-paced economy has started to gallop. Industrial output has nearly doubled in the past five years. By 1975, the country's gross national product is expected to reach $30 billion, almost twice its current $16.6 billion. As one of Europe's potential-growth speedsters, Spain has naturally attracted sizable inflows of foreign capital, which the government has welcomed. But inevitably the main job of financing Spanish business expansion must come from within the country...
...like this is just liable to come walking outta there one of these days." Once before, back in 1949, after his P-51 was blown off course and landed in the Mexican jungle, Risner had been given up for lost only to emerge three days later astride a burro. This time the odds were against him. Thanh Hoa is alive with North Vietnamese troops...
...offer, and companies are attracted to catalogue selling by the saving in inventory, rent and labor costs. A company expects to glean an average of $35 in sales from each big book, which costs $2 to produce and may contain as many as 140,000 items-from a Mexican burro to the 1928 Model A Ford parts still offered by Sears...
...woman of extraordinary complexity. She fights like a man, and swears and drinks like one too. Her love affairs are legion; yet in her ample bosom, religion burns with a white flame. She thrives on a noisy 15-hour workday. In Bolivia, she is called "half-breed"; in Paraguay, "burro rider"; in Haiti, "Madame Sarah." Everyone knows her as the market woman, the indispensable harridan of commerce who easily ranks as the No. 1 retailer to Latin America's lower classes...
Marlin & Mariachis. Ten years ago the only way to get to Vallarta (the In name for it was by boat or on burro-back over the Sierra Madre mountains...