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Sunday, September 5--Yesterday the old man took me to see his fields of manioc and coffe, at my request. Most of the fields are simply stretches of forest that have been laboriously cleared by hand, with hoe and machete. The beautiful, even rows of corps in dark earth that one sees in American farms don't exist here...
...yesterday's meeting of the United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe I reported the formation of an ad hoe Harvard committee associated with Americans for Reevaluation of Far Eastern Policy. I reported also that I had committed the United Ministry as the approving organization for posters about ARFEP...
Another tradesman to go from door to door is the coal-ball man. At each house he digs up a little patch of earth in the courtyard, mixes in some coal dust and water and then spreads out the resulting paste and cuts it into squares with his hoe. The squares are then tumbled around in a big basket, until the corners are knocked off by the rim of the basket. These coal balls burn very slowly, and of course represent a great saving in coal, since half is just mud to hold the heat...
Gerard Sarnat '67, who has added his invitation to that of the law students on the Ad Hoe Committee to Bring Vicki Albright to Harvard, said last night that Miss Albright's trip is still contingent on his raising the $200 needed for her plane fare...
Herbert J. Rogers 2L, co-chairman of the Ad Hoe Committee et cetera, commented, "Frankly, I'm getting rather sick of the whole thing...