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...only an unusual topographical experience, but a striking sociological one as well. In fact, the layout of La Paz can be viewed as a metaphor for the stark contrasts between wealth and poverty that pervade all Latin American societies. Dug into the stony walls near the top of the canyon are the most wretched hovels, those of the peasants most recently arrived from the altiplano. The weather in this part of the city, which is 12,500 feet above sea level, is pleasant on a clear day; at night, however, the cold is brutal. The air is very thin...
...winter, the burros move across the field, instinctively following the course to the spring in the canyon two miles away; they return with castanas full for the day's cooking and washing and drinking. The husbands, wives, sons or daughters prod them on with a stick...
...Provo canyon, Utah, raw land near the Sundance ski resort fetched $3,750 an acre in 1966. Today it goes for as much as $13,000-even though zoning restrictions prevent some buyers from building anything...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, The Divine Miracle, by Daina Krumins, Izy Boukir, by Nancy Graves, To Parsifal, by Bruce Baillie, July 1971 in San Francisco, Living at Beech Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon, by Peter Hutton, Sept. 27, 7:30, $1 Happiness by Alexander Medvedkin (1934 Soviet slapstick comedy) Sept. 30, 7:30, free sponsored by the Institute of Politics. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER, New England Premier of Francois Truffaut's Day for Night, followed by a talk by Truffaut, Oct. 3, 8 p.m., $3.50, tickets on sale in advance...
Five years ago, Valerie and her husband moved to Los Angeles. "Things were going well for Dick," she recalls, "but I just sat in Laurel Canyon sobbing and eating Sara Lee cakes all day." That was pre-Rhoda. Now, when the new Mary Tyler Moore season begins next week, her role will be upgraded so that she appears with the star in the weekly opening footage. And recently she branched out to her first film role, playing the Mexican wife of Alan Arkin in the forthcoming Freebie and the Bean. "When they offered me the part," she says, "I said...