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...little movement or noise on the dirt streets under a baking midday sun. The sugar season has just begun, so the men lucky enough to have jobs are swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house and to win big in the lottery...
...Lord God, we don't know why in Your wisdom, You been so doggone good to us. The Chinee don't have chili, ever. The Frenchmens is left out. The Rooshians don't know no more about chili than a hog does about a sidesaddle. Even the Meskins don't get a good whiff of it unless they stay around here. Chili eaters is some of Your chosen people...
...Middle West this week to visit his heartland supporters. In Des Moines, he was to attend the Iowa State Fair (setting for the book and two movies called State Fair), where farmers were celebrating impending record harvests of corn and wheat. After touring 4-H exhibits, cattle barns and hog pens. Ford was to outline his farm policy to fairgoers in the main grandstand. His speech was to be wedged in among the regular acts, including country musicians, hog callers and the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show...
...Rising grain prices. In response to the lower U.S. crop forecasts and early Soviet buys, grain and meat prices on the nation's futures markets are continuing to climb. Quotations for wheat and corn last week rose 5%; hog futures, a prime indicator of the anticipated price of corn, hit a record $1.05 per Ib. Agriculture Department experts think American farmers are holding some crops in storage waiting for still higher quotes, and these experts hope that release of the food will push prices down later this year. Meanwhile, though, retail food prices in June rose at an annual...
Four years ago, Don King was inmate No. 6178 at the Marion (Ohio) Correctional Institution. He spent his days in the prison work gang hauling hog manure as he served a one-to-20-year manslaughter sentence for having killed a numbers racketeer who had doublecrossed him. Released in September 1971 after four years in jail, he now rides to work in a chauffeured 21-ft. Cadillac limousine. For that work he rents a choice office suite: the $85,000-a-year, eight-room penthouse atop the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. That eyrie high above Manhattan is symbolic...