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...from a log of wood and varnished with the bark still on it, this nut dish is an attractive piece for any living or dining room. It will surely lend an air of graciousness to the surroundings and at the same time is as an attractive a gift as can be found anywhere. It comes with four nut picks and a nut cracker, and the complete set goes for only $1.75 at The COOP in Harvard Square...
...Belgium, the Sélection du Reader's Digest is the biggest (936,070) of all monthlies. In Sweden, Det Bästa ur Readers Digest (circ. 268,184) is the biggest monthly, as Selezione dal Reader's Digest is in Italy and Valitut Palat koon-nut Reader's Digest is in Finland. The Portuguese-and Spanish-language Digests are tops all over the continent of South America; the Japanese edition is now 651,000. The Digest is printed in eleven languages, read in 58 nations. In the U.S., 31,000 U.S. blind read it in Braille...
Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man 'way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back-that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat and you're finished...
...cabodos (rubber-tree tappers and Brazil-nut gatherers) who live along tributaries of the Amazon, the Caiapó Indians are bad medicine. Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
Last week, after many months of increasing Caiapó depredations, the State of Para Chamber of Commerce sent an angry telegram to Brazil's Congress, "transmitting the intense clamor of the state's population against the murdering of rubber tappers and nut gatherers by the Caiapó Indians." It noted that "at a time when Brazil needs its rubber for its economy, security and defense," production in the area had dropped from 2,000 to 400 tons a year as frightened cabodos refused to venture into Caiapó territory. Worse, the Indians, in addition to bows & arrows, clubs...