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...desert, burned by searing sun and swept by fierce sand storms. Phillips and the 100 land development companies he heads have been prime movers in the great California desert boom. Once a death trap to pioneers, the desert's rock and sand wastes, with their harsh beauty, dry, pollen-free air and brilliant sunsets, are a delight and a refuge to smog-smothered inhabitants of Los Angeles and other coastal cities. Developer Phillips operates on a simple principle: "You can't buy a poor piece of California land; you can only pay too much...
Following centuries-old tribal custom, the family called in a nidilniihi, a diagnostician who works by hand-trembling-but they fetched her in their own 1953 Chevrolet sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing...
...eternal youth." More than a dozen cosmetic houses rushed to put it in high-priced creams, soaps, even lipsticks. (France's house of Orlane, reasoning that the bees got their jelly from flowers, went one better and put on the U.S. market a cream "created from the precious pollen of the orchid...
Windfall. In Harbor Springs, Mich., the chamber of commerce, pushing the town as a pollen-free haven for hay-fever sufferers, offered schoolboys a dime a pound for any ragweed they could find, backed down hurriedly when youngsters hauled in a 1,400-lb. wagonload...
Love and Genius. What was it like, living with such a fleshly dynamo? As might be guessed, husband Goudeket never attempted to rival his earth-shattering wife, never disemboweled eclairs, covered his nose with pollen or caressed bees and wasps. "A man does not love a woman for her genius: he loves her in spite of her genius"-and Goudeket's love was as balanced and precise as a line of Colette's prose. For when his tempestuous wife sat down to write (for three hours every afternoon), it was as if some supernatural policeman appeared and took...