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INRA's work, spearheaded by idealistic young army officers, zealous female social workers and, as of last week, at least 70 Russian technicians, is having a deep effect. Said straw-hatted Luis Zaya, 31, jawing away a rainy afternoon on the porch of People's Store No. 9 in Pinar del Rio: "I'm 100% better. Before, there was no work. Now there's work all year. Now we are eating-rice, eggs, beans." Assured of $88 a month on his INRA coop, Zaya says: "If this is Communism, let it come...
...manufacturer from Los Angeles named Wally Byam. Wally has organized 27 such "Wally Byam's Caravans" before, and his customers have almost all been elderly men and women who would rather risk as much as $25,000 on an adventure than sit out their retirement on a back porch. For the trailer business, it has proved good publicity, but Wally likes to think that his caravans have a kind of mission. These, says he of his companions, are no ordinary big-talking, big-spending tourists. They are "a group of upper-middle-class Americans who can enjoy their leisure...
...angry Dallas newsmen outside the two-story brick house at 6116 Gaston Avenue, Edmund Barker, news director of radio-TV station KRLD, the local CBS outlet, seemed a traitor to the reportorial trade. Standing beside Barker on the front porch was gaunt, tearful Frances Spears, wife of fugitive Naturopath Robert Vernon Spears (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). When the other reporters tried to question Mrs. Spears, Barker shooed them away, ushered her back into the house, explaining: "Her kids have to have a bath." Growled one newsman contemptuously: "Are you going to give it to them...
...city apartments that grow in melancholy monotony in Moscow's residential districts. Letting or subletting dachas is one of the few flourishing forms of private enterprise left in Russia. Last week the Moscow press charged that a food-store manager had unlawfully bought a twelve-room, seven-porch dacha in a scientists' colony, added two more dachas inside his high walls ("almost a feudal castle, lacking only the moat and drawbridge"), hired a caretaker couple full time, and made thousands of rubles by renting out porches, rooms and cottages to dachniks at excessive prices. A dacha need...
Menu Change. In Rome, Ga., Joseph A. Mize complained to police that the thief who had been taking milk from his front porch left a note to the milkman for two quarts of chocolate milk, took them away...