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...more than a year after he was demobilized from Dictator Fulgencio Batista's defeated army in 1959, skinny Rafael Saavedra supported himself by selling fruit and newspapers in the streets of the city of Santa Clara. In July 1960 he finally found steady work gassing and washing planes for a crop-dusting company at Santa Clara airport. He also found a friend, Ground Crewman Félix Montano Echevarria, 26. Together they dreamed of escaping to freedom and prosperity in the U.S., and Félix, who was taking flying lessons, thought he knew...
Many of the students who sought tickets complained bitterly of hours of fruit-less waiting...
...teacher in the public school, which he was attending to learn English, noticed how skillfully he drew the little figures to illustrate maps. The teacher got him into the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Though he still had to work as a bellhop in winter and a fruit picker in summer, Kuniyoshi's career as a painter had begun...
...California, dozens of communities of monks, nuns and brothers have found that the best way to support themselves and their works is to become enterprising entrepreneurs. Though they have no desire for riches, the religious communities have installed mass-production factories, are turning out cheese, wine, bread, jellies, fruit cake, even beef on the hoof, selling them both nationally and locally. Usually of excellent quality, their products have received a sales boost from the rising interest in gourmet foods and, in the case of such items as hearty monastic bread, from the nation's growing health consciousness...
...monks of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, near Bardstown, Ky., have a thriving mail order business in cheese, fruit cakes, hams, bacon and summer sausage. They are noted for their cheese, which is made according to a secret formula originated at the Trappist monastery in Port du Salut, France, 700 years ago; only two monks at Gethsemani know the secret, the cheesemaker and an apprentice...