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Family Style. With studied informality, the Donner Trail Ranch manages to be both the fanciest and the folksiest in the Reno area. The friends and relatives who have taken turns keeping Mary company join her for dinner served family style, with everyone seated around a big table to eat hearty, ranch-hand's food. All is clapboard-clean and comfortable, and the easy, friendly pace has had its benign effect on Mary. Friends say that she looks wonderful...
guerrillas are equipped with Red Chinese mortars and antiaircraft guns; they eat jam from Communist Bulgaria; they train Moslem orphans to be carpenters and welders on machines from the Soviet Union...
...chances of breaking even are slim. Among U.S. fairs in the past 30 years, only Chicago's Century of Progress in 1933 squeezed out a profit-a piddling $702,171 return on the original $47 million investment. New York's 1939-40 World of Tomorrow, a frantic eat-drink-and-be-merry extravaganza held in the shadow of World War II, cost $156,905,000, paid back only 33.2% of its investors' money...
...affluent society. They prefer to wear beards and blue jeans, avoid soap and water, live in dingy tenements or, weather permitting, take to the road as holy hoboes, pilgrims to nowhere. Most of them adore Negroes, junkies, jazzmen and Zen. The more extreme profess to smoke pot, eat peyote, sniff heroin, practice perversion. They are, in short, bohemians; the squalor of their lives is reflected in their verse...
...edge cannot eat the center...