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...have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...
...Square parking problem by addition of nearly 150 spaces. Think now, fiften stories to bring over one thousand more consumers and friends to Cambridge, to add great sums to the tax base. Think, all this at the cost of a walled-in strip of grass, where cows cannot possibly graze without imperiling their lives, grass whose only value is that once a handful of troops gathered there to march to Bunker Hill. Nothing could be more in the public interest than John Briston Sullivan's proposal...
...window of the Varsity Barber Shop an nounced: "We repair $1. $1.35 and $1.50 haircuts here for $1.75.'' Cowed. In Buenos Aires. Aerotrans-portes del Litoral Argentine canceled all flights to Santiago del Estero. where farmers, despite repeated requests and two near crashes, continued to graze cows on the landing strip...
...certain thin-aired uplands where theologians graze, it is growing increasingly difficult to tell a Protestant from a Roman Catholic. To a degree that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, they read each other's works and build upon each other's researches-though each retains his own faith. In Europe much personal discussion goes on between Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars; Calvinist Theologian Oscar Cullman is welcome at the Vatican, and some of the best studies of Karl Earth have been written by Catholic scholars. In the U.S. there is a growing movement, sparked by Jesuit...
With the stoicism of an old war horse who can still graze on memories, Harry Reutlinger, 63, moved gracefully to his new pasture. "I was part of the past," he said. "But I don't care to discuss...