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Strapped to the runner of a helicopter, Che's body was then flown to Valle Grande, a dirt-poor, two-centuryold town of 7,000 people set in rolling hills some 3,000 ft. high. At the airport, it was loaded into a truck and whisked down the narrow dirt and cobblestone streets to the town's Señor de Malta Hospital, run by German Dominican sisters. There four men in white and a nun went to work on Che, opening an incision in his neck for embalming fluid and washing his body. A man in civilian...
South Korea's progress, however, is not without problems. There is widespread corruption in lower levels of government; and out in the dirt-poor countryside, millions of Koreans have yet to share in prosperity. Claiming that Park's policies have only "made the rich richer and the poor poorer," Yun has traveled the country from one end to the other, promising that if elected he will cut fertilizer prices and general taxes, raise tax exemptions and increase government salaries...
...business acumen is shared by Patton, 63, who announced his retirement at the N.F.U.'s annual convention in Denver. Patton, who wears a piratical black patch over his left eye (it was removed in a cancer operation), built the N.F.U. from a struggling organization of 80,681 dirt-poor, Dust Bowl farm families to its present eminence as one of the Big Three of U.S. agrarian lobbies, with a membership of 750,000-mostly small farmers-in 40 states. Under Patton, the son of a union leader, the N.F.U. has demanded ever higher federal price supports for agricultural products...
...dirt-poor western Sicily, few peasants can read, even fewer can afford to buy a book. So what was anyone talking about in Roccamena last week? Shakespeare, Brecht, Dante, Aeschylus, to name a few of the poets and playwrights whose works were featured in the town's first informal festival of the performing arts. Star performer was Movie Idol Vittorio Gassman, who for two straight nights strode a sidewalk "stage" illumined by car headlights while declaiming passages from Julius Caesar, The Divine Comedy and other works. Whatever they made of it, the Roccamenensi were an appreciative audience...
...Cold as Marble. When the fever began its rampages three years ago in Bolivia's northeastern province of Beni, the dirt-poor villagers around San Joaquin called it "the black typhus." But this was a far deadlier disease. It struck almost one-third of the population, and killed about one-third of its victims. Men and women of all ages were stricken. First came fever, chills and headache. Then, in many cases, an agonizing pain in the back, usually followed by a rash in the throat, tremor of the tongue and extremities, bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes...