Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much of the redistributed wealth turns up for sale in the Forcella district, a teeming complex of narrow streets known locally as "the Big PX." In Forcella, portable radios sell at half the normal price, and bargain hunters can pick up new and still-crated U.S. washing machines, refrigerators, stoves, dryers, electric razors, and about any brand of cigarettes known to man. Where does it all come from? A shopkeeper explains: "That's why it's so cheap. One shouldn...
...BOLIVIA has come a long way since 1948, when a La Paz newspaper carried an advertisement: "For sale-200 hectares of land, 47 hogs, 83 Indians." Since the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tin barons, the Spanish criollos, who make up a mere 15% of the country's 4,000,000 people, no longer traffic in serfs, and most Indians have their own plot of land. Yet, on the 12,000-ft. Andean plateau, where 75% of Bolivians live, the peasants still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly...
...away from job, winter, phony people and their "Death Row" wait for heart disease or cancer "or one of the less predictable trapdoors" to get them. He comes to an uncommercialized Caribbean island called Amerigo. He falls in love with a rundown resort. The owner has it up for sale. Atlas offers to back him. The poor sap says...
Farnsworth was critical of Middlesex Superior Court Justice Frank W. Tomasello, who declared on Monday, after sentencing a 19-year-old for the sale of drugs, that "tax-free institutions should screen out those they let in "as a help in the clean up" of Harvard Square...
...addition, a special book on the civil rights movement will be on sale. A documentary of various SNCC activities in different cities, the book has a text written by Lorraine Hansberry, author of Raisin...