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Among the 2,500 Indians who, dumbly surviving, lived at Vicos three years ago, Manuel Cruz, a lean-faced man of 40, was typical. Daylight, for him, meant only work; he had a mild form of tuberculosis, brought up an illiterate son, drank cheap rum at funerals. For the right to keep his ancestral four-acre subsistence plot, he toiled three days a week in the fields of the patron. His superstitious technique for growing his family's food, potatoes, was to "talk to the land...
Aptitude Test. In Chicago, heavyhanded Burglar Walter Pernal climbed an outside apartment-house stairway in broad daylight, smashed a window with such a resounding crash that an upstairs tenant phoned police, drank so much liquor in the apartment that he was helpless to resist arrest...
...present from Uncle Pablo); Doña Lola swayed happily to the rhythm, urging the dancers on with shouts of "Ole!" To show off the Picasso pictures, the family cheerfully struck matches to give Editor Bernier a first tantalizing peek. Back next day at 6 p.m. for a daylight look (the family sleeps all morning, siestas in the afternoon), Rosamond Bernier found a treasure trove of Picassos, most of them stacked dustily against the medical cabinets used by Dr. Pablin to keep plaster casts of his patients' deformed feet. Cherished but neglected, one Picasso canvas had a hole punched...
...Though Daylight Saving officially starts at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, students should set their watches ahead Saturday night to avoid early morning confusion. Saturday celebrators will thus find that they have an hour less in which to recuperate...
After-supper athletics, darker mornings, and an hour's less sleep on Sunday will mark the return of Daylight Saving Time to Boston this weekend. Scores of would-be athletes are expected to crowd the tennis courts Monday night to commemorate the event...