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...stunning panorama. There are 3.6 billion chickens in the U.S. but only 170 of them have made it to the 8th Annual International Chicken Flying Contest. It is held, as usual, in the rolling hill country of eastern Ohio, on the 1,100-acre Bob Evans farm at Rio Grande, a crossroads community on two-lane Route 35 between Chillicothe and Charleston...
...play-and often for other favors afterward. His recitals, heavily laced with showpieces of his own composing, catered unabashedly to the florid, sentimental taste of the day. On occasion he disdained using one piano where ten or 14 would do. During the years before his death at 40 in Rio de Janeiro, he took to staging what he called "monster" festivals, sometimes jamming hundreds of players and singers on to the same platform for a bash of Berliozian proportions...
Among the shabby, working-class shacks of Volta Redonda, a Brazilian steel town of 150,000 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, small groups of neighbors gathered on five different nights last week for a few hours of discussion. Steelworkers, retired welders, grandfathers, young housewives with children on their laps, sipped coffee on borrowed chairs and swapped views on local and national problems: the endless waiting lines at the state hospital, the expulsion of rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily...
...construction in 1935 of jetties at the mouth of the Rio Grande, at the very southern tip of the island, has paid off with some local accumulation of sand. The southern half of the town's developed area, which includes a large Hilton hotel and condominiums, currently has no problems with erosion. But just a mile up the road, where much of the new development is taking place, the island is getting smaller and smaller. In the past century, according to the Texas bureau of economic geology, the land disappeared at an average rate of 12 ft. a year...
...have a sand-starved sea be cause of natural forces and man-made dams on the Rio Grande. Eventually, nature will have its way." Unless, perhaps, some way can be found to control the appetite of the beautiful, pounding waves that made Padre in the first place and now attract sun-loving buyers from thou sands of miles away...