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...later if it rains early and the river that needs to be crossed has risen--and disgorge the homecomers with their squawking foot-cuffed chickens, their onions, tomatoes, chiles, and their new levis and sombreros, or perhaps with just a little money in their pockets from selling some extra corn that their families did not need...
Small farmers constitute 88 per cent of the population of Guatemala, but own only 14 per cent of the land. A subsistence farmer, who cannot grow enough corn for his family on his one or two acres of land or sell it for a reasonable price in the fluctuating market, must migrate to work on the coffee or cotton plantations--called fincas--at harvest time...
...introduction of fertilizer and agricultural techniques has been the major factor in the past decade in easing the drastic population growth and poverty. With fertilizer, the farmer can produce two or three times as much corn as he did before on the same plot of land. Cooperatives have expanded because they provide the credit which the farmer needs to buy fertilizer...
...Plymouth, Mass., where the holiday has been observed since 1621, disgruntled Indians insisted that this year's traditional, Pilgrim-dominated celebration take long-overdue notice of who taught the English intruders to plant corn in the first place. The city's religious sermon was delivered by an Indian, and the town pageant did not feature the usual costumed Pilgrims carrying muskets ? a historical falsification, say the Indians, since the 17th century Chief Massosoit by keeping his peaceful pledge to the Pilgrim settlers all his life never gave them reason to carry guns...
...played by Strother Martin, he squared off in earlier episodes against big-city decadence (the season opener featured a gay apartment house, an alcoholic actress and an attempted rape of a Lolita-like minor). But in next month's installment the pair will really get to shuck the corn. They will return to Jim my's home town in West Virginia to defend a man accused of committing a blood-feud murder with a muzzle-loading rifle...