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Revealing that the Ski Club plans to operate so far as is possible under present transportation regulations, Captain Bigelew said they hoped to keep the Club's ski hut in Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, open during the winter months...
...Andy believed that what Georgia's hut-dwelling, soil-scratching, God-fearing mountain folk needed most was someone to teach them how to live and farm better. He bought more land, put up neat, comfortable farmhouses, let each family farm 40 acres with teachers to show them how. In classroom sessions that are more like town meetings than classes, the men talk about soil, animals and crops, the women discuss better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce...
...locate plane. Bearings S. 72° E. . . . Put under observation by native Indians. They actually believe we are crazy for doing this. . . . Jungle night studded with an incredible concentration of stars per square lightyear. A hammock strung between two trees at the edge of the clearing. The hut is quiet. Voices recede and stop. The jungle night takes over . . . a big cat prowls around looking for something to kill. . . . Presently she materializes out of the night. Instead of reaching for the coffee cup she presents to me, I take her hand-dawn would reveal a rather bulging hammock with...
Customers' checks average 35? (profit ½? a meal). They join the waiters in community singing. During religious songs, blue neon crosses light up the walls. In the Pacific Seas' "rain hut" every 20 minutes diners hear the sound of rain on the roof. At Brookdale visitors hear a recording of Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and a two-minute sermon on Story of the Redwoods in a tiny chapel...
...India. Aged (80) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, nationalist leader and onetime Congress president, declared that rioters "are not only doing a great disservice to the country but are betraying the trust [nonviolence] imposed in them by Gandhi." But in the Wardha district of Ashti, near Gandhi's mud-hut home, four constables and a subinspector were stoned to death. Two other constables were doused with kerosene and burned alive. At Chimur four native police were pounded to death with their own lathees after they refused to join the rioters. Riots were less violent in the industrial cities, but they...