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...Grandson of a Brazilian supreme court justice, Lacerda worked closely with Brazil's Communist Party, which two of his uncles had helped start, often led student strikes and demonstrations against the government. In 1935, with the police on his trail, he was smuggled to his grandfather's mango farm in the false bottom of a coffee truck. Four years later he broke sharply with the Communists after he outspokenly questioned the authority of top Reds...
...Michener's Tales of the South Pacific; actually, Tehuantepec is on an isthmus only 1,262 miles down the Pan American Highway from the U.S.A. Set in a thorny and desolate countryside, the town, watered by the Tehuantepec River, is a lush oasis, verdant with coconut palms and mango trees. But Tehuantepec's great traditional allure comes mostly from the beauty of its women, the famed Tehuanas...
...Palms & Mango Leaves. Prime Minister Nehru's government was delighted. Nehru too is Gandhi's heir-but a modern, half-Westernized one. Gandhi had a political core which Bhave ignores and Nehru has inherited. Nehru, moreover, believes in industrialization and irrigation and vast schemes; Bhave believes in self-denial and spinning wheels. After Bhave's triumph in Telingana, Nehru wanted him to come to New Delhi and discuss Bhoomidan-yagna with the National Planning Commission, and offered to send a plane down to fly Vinoba back. Vinoba said: "I will come, but in my own time...
That slow plodding to the capital, which took two months, was a triumphant journey. At nearly every town and village, Bhave found arbors of palms and mango leaves erected for him to walk through. Underfed, ragged villagers crowded around to touch the holy man's feet, and to bathe them when he would stop for a rest. Municipal dignitaries garlanded him with flowers, which the little ascetic passed back to the crowd. At each departure, the elders walked with him a mile toward the next village. And at every stop, he held a prayer meeting and carried on with...
...into the old man's palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...