Word: llanos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone, narcotics agents last year "removed" Mexican drugs worth close to $600 million from the underground market. The Mexican government is determined to wipe out all of this prosperous drug traffic. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited the Condor base headquarters at Jose del Llano, joined a party of helicopter raiders and sent this report...
...certainly there forty years ago, and some of it must be there still--big barracks-like buildings, perhaps, huge rotting printing presses, a dining hall, land where you can still see the marks of a plow. Newllano used to be the home of a commune called the Llano Cooperative Colony, where former Wobblies and the like from all over the country gathered in some numbers. They lived, farmed, published books and a weekly newspaper, and for a number of years staved of off foreclosure. I don't know what became of the colony; I only know that for a time...
...Llano must have been near Grabow, though, and I know that 20 years earlier Covington Hall had lived there too. Perhaps he had stayed somewhere in the huge lumber camps, for he had been organizing the workers there, goading them into rebellion, publishing a paper called The Voice of the People. The workers had strck: the Galloway Lumber Company, which owned the town, had posted armed guards; and on a hot summer day in 1912 the strikers and guards had gotten into a shooting match that left three dead and 48 wounded. Perhaps the Galloway lumber camps are, there...
REBELLION, in any event, folded, and Hall moved on, virtually disappearing from 1915 to 1931, when he turned up at Llano. He published books of poetry, returned to New Orleans in the 40s to write a book called Early Labor Struggles in the Deep South, and disappeared again. The New Orleans City Directory lists him sporadically during those years, when he was in his seventies. In 1942 he was listed as assistant librarian at a place called The Nursing Home; in 1949 he was listed as a writer, at a different address. Someone interviewed him in 1950 for a scholarly...
...first glance, it looks like a movie set for Walden Two. There is a shop building called Harmony, a farmhouse called Llano, and a dormitory called Oneida. Bulletin boards list upcoming cultural events, and young people lounge on hammocks, reading and engaging in serious discussions. The smell of farm-fresh cooking is everywhere. The resemblance to Walden Two is more than superficial. Twin Oaks, a 123-acre farm commune nestled in the foothills of Virginia's Piedmont, is a remarkable attempt to create a Utopian community governed by Skinner's laws of social engineering...