Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cubans queued up at 3,000 exchange centers, a Havana fruit vendor handed over 12,000 pesos, and beggars showed up with what they had. The thin sheaves of new bills they received were made in Czechoslovakia, pictured Fidel in heroic stance. Then the government announced one more cruel surprise: any cash that had been turned in exceeding 10,000 pesos would be "confiscated." The vast majority of Cubans could now be considered a true proletariat working for what the government decides to pay as wages. Said one Cuban: "It is a typical Communist technique. They keep them poor...
Near Milk Street in Boston, a fruit peddler keeps his little radio nestled among the purple plums, and startled passers-by always pause to stare at the singing fruit. Small boys on bicycles churn along the roads with radios topped with long whip antennas (they used to carry fishing rods). On a downtown Dallas street recently, pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy...
From 24 nations, a muscular army of 10,000 descended on Stuttgart, pitched their tents in public parks, and ate the city out of fresh fruit. Their weapons were the Indian club, the skipping rope and the trampoline; their uniforms were the leotard, the sweatshirt, and the bloomer; their hearts were uncompetitive and simon-pure. It was amateur night all week. In Stuttgart's commodious Nechar Stadium (capacity 90,000) and in 15 overflow halls around town, the third world festival of amateur gymnasts, the Gymnaestrada (the "way to gymnastics"), was under...
Once a Hudson River whaling port and a headquarters for George Washington's colonial army, steep-sloping, tree-shaded Newburgh (pop. 31,000) has long been a shopping center for the green and pleasant fruit farms that prosper in the rolling hills of Orange County. Since World War II, most of the farms have been serviced by migrant workers, mostly Negroes from the Deep South, who drift from harvest to harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall...
Pope John left no doubt that in the church's view progress and "the natural right of private ownership, inclusive of productive goods," are inseparable. But John was also aware that the set of the modern state is toward what he calls "socialization"-"the fruit and expression of a natural tendency, almost irrepressible in human beings, the tendency to join together to attain objectives which are beyond the capacity and means at the disposal of single individuals." But socialization does not necessarily turn men into automatons. "For socialization is not to be considered as a product of natural forces...