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...work being done was voluntary, and the workers' enthusiasm as they spoke to us and the higher production achieved that day confirmed the fact. Later in our trip we traveled to Camegucy, 600 miles east of Havana, and met sixteen-year-old girls who were planting coffee and picking fruit ten hours a day and continuing their education at night. They often volunteer to work extra hours, they told us, so that more people can be free to work in the sugar harvest...
...discussing the writings of Che, Marx, Lenin, Fidel, and others) for an hour after breakfast and then work in the fields still 7 p.m. They are in charge of a few thousand acres of grapefruits, tangerines, and guavas; so they have become skilled in every phase of citrus fruit agronomy including grafting techniques, fertilization, and testing fruit varieties, After dinner, they talk about the news in the daily paper and on the radio and then they may see a movie, study...
...devotee does not respond favorably to this gesture. "I explicitly told you not to pick that fruit." With a stroke of the devotee's hand, the power of Krishna transforms the fruit into garbage...
Even before the verdict was announced, Chau was arguing his case in the supposed sanctuary of the National Assembly, which was in recess. For 80 hours, he held forth in the old Opera House, entertaining newsmen with Vietnamese beer, fruit and copies of his biography, and maintaining a steady anti-Thieu patter. "Did you hear?" Chau jeered at one point. "President Nixon has sent a dossier to the Senate asking for the lifting of Senator [George] McGovern's parliamentary immunity because he was in contact with the Communists in Paris." What did Chau think of his sentence? Thieu...
...changed his mind in the spring of 1964 after witnessing an enacument of an all too common scene: the police vs. the black community. Some black teenagers had accidentally knocked over a fruit vendor's stand in Harlem. The vendor immediately called two nearby foot patrolmen. A crowd gathered, and the fight was on. "I realized then." says Miller, "that I could not follow standard procedure, that the problems of the black community had to be wrestled with on a much more immediate level than I had had in mind...