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Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...
...that the young Socialist "militants" were going off in an anti-democratic direction. To the autoworkers, journalists, Government officials and professors who read the New Leader, it still seems to espouse theoretical socialism. But when it gets down to concrete recommendations, its line is often Fair Deal pragmatism. The carrot for big-name contributors is not money. The New Leader will sometimes pay as high as $10 a week to a contributor of a weekly column, but it pays nothing for articles. The lure to writers is complete freedom to have their say and veer as far right or left...
Said one woman: "The most awful thing was the Steinhaus, where the Russians questioned us. Then there was the Karzer [dungeon]. If you took a carrot into the barracks, you got eight days Karzer. There you slept without a blanket and got food every other...
...months, truck farmers around Xochimilco had been pulling down the water level by digging artesian wells to feed their cauliflower and carrot patches. The municipality of Mexico City did nothing about it. As the waterline in the canals dipped under the one-foot mark (four feet is normal), the boatmen, led by Pacheco, tackled the problem themselves. Armed with picks & shovels, 1,000 of them with their wives and children started digging in the mucky canals. Thousands more joined them, all seeking new springs to feed Xochimilco...
...fried potatoes. He works there at a plain wooden table littered with typescript. He is the head of the "Association for the International Registry of World Citizens and People's Assembly." His admirers-in France they are legion-call him le petit homme. In the 26-year-old, carrot-topped, pleasant, shrewd and slightly corny Air Forces veteran they profess to see an authentic symbol of a scared and muddled generation. His intellectual baggage may be designed for air travel, but Garry Davis is no dope. He has a clear, canny mind which constantly surprises his intellectual French colleagues...