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...prospects at Mahwa were unpromising. Most of the people were illiterate, half-starved, infested with disease and parasites. The ill-cultivated land swarmed with sacred cows, which were allowed to wander unchecked, competing with the people for the meager crops...
...dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour faces that bothered Whitman. He complained of the overcrowded classrooms he had seen, of the bad ventilation ("Every school room should possess a very high ceiling"), and of meager playgrounds. He advocated a more thorough study of American history, the introduction of music and botany. He saw no reason why children's chairs should not have backs, why their dull texts should not be "worthy of the best literary genius," or why their classrooms should not be brightened...
...Sowers of Evil." Occasionally even these meager rights have been violated by mob action. Six weeks after one such episode, reports Garrison, "the periodical El Iris de Paz ('the Rainbow of Peace'!), by its own description 'a fortnightly magazine of information and guidance, Marian and Catholic'-answered a real or imaginary inquirer who asked: 'Is it lawful to enter into chapels or meeting places of Protestants . . . with the sole idea of disturbing and of destroying the furniture and other articles?' The answer was in three parts: 1) as to 'disturbing...
Reason for the Spartan decree is Yugoslavia's present food shortage (TIME, Oct. 16) caused by a severe summer drought. Housewives standing in long lines for meager bread rations grumbled when they saw the colonels' and the commissars' ladies breezing into well-stocked special food stores. Tito could have applied the new equality only to food, but he apparently considered it politically expedient to extend the measure over the whole field of amenities available to Communist party members. It all went to show how rapidly a vice such as egalitarianism could eat into an otherwise uncorrupted Communist...
...Florencia, back in the hills from the northern city of Torreón, the name of Cliserio Reyes was a standing joke. While other boys of his age in the small farming community interested themselves in girls or beisbol, 18-year-old Cliserio spent all his spare time and meager pocket money building model airplanes. To repeated gibes, and pleas from his friends to abandon such foolishness, he replied flatly: "Some day I'm going...