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...turbulent, bringing the cells to the surface for a short time, then carrying them down into shaded depths. The "crop," a bright green paste, is harvested by settling or centrifuging. It spoils quickly if not preserved in some way, has a vegetable taste that is a little like raw lima beans, and when dried, contains about 50% protein...
...Left-wing (but antiCommunist) leader of Peru's workers and Indians. A hunted man after Odria's 1948 revolution, he took refuge in Colombia's Lima embassy 4½ years ago. Subsequently, the World Court ruled confusingly that "asylum was not justified," but that Colombia "is not obliged to deliver" Haya to Peru. To this day, Haya has not left the embassy, which is completely encircled by Odria's troops...
Carhop. In Lima, Ohio, when Andrew Moseley got out of his car to inspect the damage after a collision, a stranger slipped in behind the wheel, drove away...
...door and off to military prison, where he faces trial and a possible three-year jail sentence. The army announced that it would henceforth issue communiques to disown the retired "pajama" officers who have served as military dressing for Communist-front platforms. Justice Minister Negrão de Lima ordered police to ban all further "peace" meetings. "Evidence indicates," he said, "that notorious Communists are found among virtually all peace committees. These peace movements are merely a pretext for Communist propaganda...
Last week a real-life shoe salesman, Thomas Bata Jr. of the Czech shoe-manufacturing family, was confident that he could vastly improve on O. Henry's imaginary sales stunt. A new Bata factory (one of 37 in the free world) outside Lima will make 1,000,000 pairs of canvas and rubber shoes a year. Bata expects to sell them for 11 soles (70?) a pair through 46 stores and by circulating through the highlands demonstration vans with movies, native salesmen and balloons for the kiddies. "I think," Bata says, "I've got something better than cockleburs...