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...time Perón was deposed in 1955, the landowners were reeling; with far less land and fewer gauchos, they had to become ranchers again. Strange terms like fertilizers, crop rotation, weed killers and permanent pastures crept into the pampas vocabulary...
...wake of last month's Harlem and Rochester violence, there was a wide new wave of concern across the country about race relations. National shock and disgust had erupted after Birmingham, but now a different and sometimes bewildered sense of trouble crept through the public consciousness. Perhaps because many minds had long equated the South with racial violence, there was something terrifying about the discovery that it could happen on a large scale in the North...
...East German brothers, aged 19 and 21, crept silently into a grain field at the East-West border one recent sum mer afternoon and flattened themselves amidst the billowing green stalks. Looming above them were two 30-ft.-high wooden guard towers manned by grim East German Grepos toting machine pistols, and between the towers stretched three rows of ugly barbed wire...
...charm with scaly creatures did not confine itself to working hours. In a steamy Amazon town, Jean-Paul went out into the jungle one night and came back to the hotel with a dozen baby crocodiles, crept into rooms late at night and put a baby croc into everyone's bidet. Soon he had two baby leopards, four macaws, several adolescent crocodiles, a parrot and three snakes in his own room. Remembers the film's producer: "The crocodiles ate the birds. The leopards ate the crocodiles. The snakes died of starvation. The room stank like the bottom...
...challenge Professor Harris' assertion that the average physician's income has crept up to "a current national average of $25,000 or more" [June 12]. For my colleagues' sake I could wish it were true, but I wonder if the professor has mixed up gross income with net income. Physicians in private practice have to pay office secretaries, nurses, rent, etc., often up to as much as 40% of their gross income...