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Born. To Diana Trask, 23, carrot-topped Australian singer who came up from Down Under to sing along with Mitch, and Thomas Ewen, 36, Aussie auto salesman: their second child, second son; in Melbourne...
HELLO DOLLY! Cast as a matchmaker, Carol Channing dangles her gay, carrot-topped self in front of a stuffy moneybags (David Burns) who is slow off the mark. Gower Champion's dancers set a brisk pace for the chase...
HELLO, DOLLY! Cast as a matchmaker, Carol Channing dangles her gay, carrot-topped self in front of a stuffy moneybags (David Burns) who is slow off the mark. Gower Champion's dancers set a brisk pace for the chase...
...Carrot & Stick. The basis of Ruiz' campaign is "military civil action," a program for making friends among the campesinos. Army troops show backward peasants how to build schools, highways, health centers, wells and sewers. Government agencies contribute drugs and crop seeds. Alianza funds provide many items, from mobile dispensaries to bulldozers. Army officers help out in classrooms. On Sundays, military bands tootle in village squares. And throughout the country, thousands of posters ask campesinos to help the military track down bandits...
...considerable autonomy in deciding what and when to plant. Private plots were returned to the peasants in 1961, and are producing well for the free market. As usual, the Communists keep close watch: the stick comes down in the form of close regulation of the free market, and the carrot is dangled in the guarantees of slightly higher prices for crops sold to the state over and above the compulsory deliveries. In the past and in the foreseeable future, every harvest becomes a time of national breath holding. In a borderline economy, any improvement is immediately felt...