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...Beyond, in the open country, are the peasants who work the huge holdings of absentee landlords for a pittance; in Spain, one-hundredth of the population still owns half of the land. Five million Spanish peasants use no mechanized farm tools at all; as they helped bring in the harvest last week, they had, as the Spanish saying goes, "only their hands." Spain's per capita income is the second lowest, next to Portugal, in Western Europe. Most Madrid families can no longer afford even the lowest-price (80?) seats at the bullfights, now go more and more...
Meanwhile, the gang harvest mounted. Two days before Triplett's escape, two bodies stabbed and beaten beyond recognition turned up in the trunk...
...mile to his credit this spring, had planned to shoot for a double, and Ed Hamlin might also have run in both races. Both the $30 and mile fields are thin this year, and the varsity might have reaped a 24-point harvest in the two events. But not any more...
...False Modesty. The ritual begins on Feb. 1 of each year. By then, the Advisory Board-twelve newspaper executives appointed to four-year, unsalaried terms in office, the president of Columbia and a secretary-has reaped a lavish harvest of entries (more than 720 this year...
Only last fall the Agriculture Department condemned the potato to the ignominious chore of feeding livestock in order to reduce a heavy surplus. Then a disappointing European harvest started an unexpected flow of U.S. potatoes abroad...