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...stars and planets in their courses, but could not find his way and purposes among the nearer things. He had to have, somewhere in the world, a place of perfection of his own, though it should be only the little one of laughter, of surprise, only the illusion of fruit upon a table rich with the juices of summer...
...closest neighbor is a rich and really quiet American. Joe Bellman, who looks like "Edward Gibbon, parboiled," has not opened a book in 20 years, simply lolls in the sea and sun, and only worries how his next meal is coming, culinarily speaking. When the doctored fruit reaches grapefruit-size, Gourmet Joe poaches a fig. "This is how things tasted to Adam," he tells his maid delightedly, "before Eve introduced him to ignobler pleasures and spoiled his palate for ever more...
...experiment in treating Kirkland House diners to music during last Friday evening's meal met with vehement and mixed reaction from House residents polled at a music-less dinner last night. The prandial serenade, emanating from three strategically placed, borrowed speakers, was the fruit of an idea born to the Kirkland House Committee last fall...
...dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers from the highlands joined in and got 124 acres of government land free. Now Ecuador is the world's biggest banana exporter, with shipments of $70 million last year...
...Crops are as sure as a blue-chip stock,'' says a Quito attorney. "You plant bananas for quick returns, and a second crop-either coffee or cocoa-for the long term. In five years your annual income equals your original investment." As the second crops came to fruit, Ecuador's coffee exports jumped from $3,000,000 to $25 million, cocoa from $6,000,000 to $20.5 million...