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Flags v. Fertilizers. Bolivia is still a cruel, almost medieval land locked in Andean poverty. On the 12,000-ft.-high Altiplano, where 75% of its 4,000,000 people live, Indian campesinos still consider white flags draped on their oxen a surer crop guarantee than fertilizer. Some 60% of the people speak only Indian languages, and per capita income is a pitiable $114. But under Paz Estenssoro, 56, Bolivia is gradually improving...
...girl, she got herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro was raised off and on by an aunt, a grandmother, a godmother, an uncle and, finally, by his mother and her new man. He went to school occasionally, but was endlessly yanked out to tend the oxen, water the hog-plum trees, deliver the tortillas his mother made, and work as a hired hand on farms. He was beaten with fists, whips and sticks. Before he was ten, "there was this older girl . . . She needed a man already and well, she forced...
...winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through the forest and chalked the highest hardwoods. Not long after the oxen in jangling chains shafted road and tore the earth as they pulled the felled trunks to the water.... But the stream endured that too, it was granted one last fringe of privacy, one forest ribbon for its sequestering. So the water was left with a rag of honor and nothing...
...simpler ages of faith, men found it as natural and normal to pray as to till a field or yoke a brace of oxen. But prayer, like good conversation, seems to be one of the lost arts of the 20th century. After mumbling through the Lord's Prayer, modern man wonders what to do next: Ask God for a raise, or thank him for a happy vacation? What kind of words should...
...hearts as no other story can. The Carpenter Joseph, taking his pregnant wife on the hard journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, forced to shiver through the winter cold in the only lodging available -a humble stable. There the Christ Child is born, watched over by lowing oxen and sheep, and worshiped by three kings from the East, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh...