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Here was where people came to buy their coca. Two-foot high transparent bags appeared green with the small leaves that the Bolivian Indians chew as part of a tradition dating back millenia. On the altiplano, where the nights are wintry and food scarce, the coca leaves, when chewed hour after hour, help to drive out the cold and to kill one's appetite. These Aymara no longer live on the altiplano, but it is still cold at night and food is far from plentiful. Shipped in hugh quantities from the jungle, the coca sells for incredibly cheap prices...
...nearly-combed black hair and dark-frame glasses, sits at one of the four tables in the small store. He stares down at the steaming anchovy-and-onion pizza. With a slow, deliberate move he tugs at a piece of pizza, lifts it to his mouth, and begins to chew it, savoring his solitude with each melancholy bite...
...Aaron Burr: "A crooked gun or other perverted instrument, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of." Or Hubert Humphrey's relations with his No. 1 man, Lyndon Johnson: "The only time I saw Johnson was when he ran out of people to chew on and raised hell with...
...unhappy membership back to work. But the resistance to the newly proclaimed dictatorship of President Juan Maria Bordaberry will not end. The left is strong in Uruguay, and as it squares off with the military in coming weeks, Bordaberry may discover he has bitten off more than he can chew...
Clyde acknowledges that the change in lifestyle is his most difficult adjustment, and he still has not learned to chew tobacco. In the off-season he will attend Texas A. & M. and major in journalism and television sportscasting. He explains, "If I don't make it on this side...