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...asking-and getting-as much as 60? per lb. for steers. The cost of fattening the animals has about doubled in the past year, so that for calves that go on feed this month it will be about 50? per lb. This surge results mainly from zooming prices for corn, the main ingredient in a feeder steer's diet. But packers last week were paying only 41? a lb. for the fattened steers. In Greeley, Colo., one of the nation's feed-lot centers (see box), some operators were taking losses of $100 or more on each steer...
...stopped at one of the tiny tiendas or stores clustered in one stretch of the main street. There was really very little to choose from--some hard candy, oranges and bananas, a tasteless variety of popped corn, cocoa leaves to ward off the winter cold, some tins of canned fish. All of the food had to be bused in from Cochabamba, down in the valley, and hence was sparse and expensive. I decided to buy some peanuts. Not that I was very hungry; rather, I hoped to use them as a sort of bribe to entice people to talk...
Chicha is the national alcoholic beverage, made of fermented corn. It has a slightly bitter, unpleasant taste. Many women in the valley undertake the long process of drying, sprouting, crushing, and aging the corn kernels in order to supplement the often meager income provided by their household's farm. The watering spots marked with white flags are almost always the social centers in these rugged mountainside communities. In fact, one can almost go so far as to say that chicha is the lubricant of the nation, loosening Bolivian mouths and minds into an animated, sometimes raucous revel...
...dinner, while, at the same time, pretending to the padre that I could still talk rationally. I don't remember which was more difficult. In any case, I do remember that with each mouthful of grilled meat, salty potatoes, and watery corn, I experienced what the Bolivians call una revolucion del estomago. The weak electric light that hung above us cast a pale glow on the oily table where we ate. Ray was reserved as usual, so I was unable to determine if he was aware of the depths to which I was rapidly plunging. After he had finished...
...speaking their own Indian tongue and showing a hostile back to any intruders. However, with each passing year, improved transportation and communication led to increased contact with the city, and the peasants became less and less willing to live, as their ancestors did, on a bare subsistence diet of corn and dried potatoes. Whole communities picked up and moved to La Paz, where they managed to construct a roof over their heads, but, for a long time, little more. Life in the Indian district of the city is a resurrection of the ancient customs of the small villages...