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Just before Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...
...seem to change at all, little Costa Rica (pop. 800,875) has the firmest grip on democracy. Its citizens like their Presidents elected, their press free, their schools strong. They feel no need for an army but will rise in arms when they must. A citizen army, under Coffee Planter Jose Figueres, fought in 1948 to stop a scheming government from keeping an elected President, Otilio Ulate, out of office. Figueres won handily, and, as promised, turned the government back to Ulate. Since then, President Ulate has run the republic in the way its democratic citizens like...
...wife of a Tahitian planter who had entertained Voyager Thor Heyerdahl and friends at a hula party in Papeete decided that the dance was strictly a private affair, never meant for public eyes. Since Heyerdahl filmed it, then used a few seconds of the shot in his movie Kon-Tiki, she sued...
...wealthy Canary Islands banana planter, he arrived in Paris at 21 to sell his father's produce. "I went out on one continuous binge for three months," he recalls, "and visited practically every cabaret, bistro and cafe in Paris. At 5 o'clock in the morning I usually turned up at the Halles [Paris' central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy...
They speak of Emergency here. It means Communist terrorism. The Emergency is not getting any better. Every day or so another planter or soldier or constable is killed. Recently, bandits fired into a car in which a planter's daughter, aged 2½, was riding. They hit the driver and the car went into the ditch. Then the bandits came up, shot the little girl through the head at close range, killed the cook boy who tried to protect her. "Swine -just swine!" exclaimed a British official, and the planters were even more bitter...