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...corn needed. So the Zinacantecos often rent fields a days walk from their homes, in a tropical part of Chiapas called "hot country." For weeks at a time the men are gone from home, tending their fields. During the summer, I worked with them, in return for my shelter, but especially for their friendship...
...before dawn. By the time I was Zinacanteco would already have the fire heating an earthenware pot of dark beans which had been simmering all night, while we slept under our open, cane-thatched shelter. For breakfast we ate the beans, all of us sitting around the same pot, each scooping out his beans with a toasted tortilla...
...President Kennedy said last week that he is giving serious consideration to a plan for building large fallout shelters in populous areas along the federal interstate highway routes now under construction. The plan, proposed by Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, would make use of the holes highway crews dig to gather fill; it would save money by utilizing the heavy earth-moving equipment already on the potential shelter sites...
...International Business Machines Corp. Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. offered IBM's 60,000 employees loans pf $1,000 each to build home shelters. They can pay back the loans in three years by payroll deductions. IBM also will sell shelter supplies at cost to its employees...
...Chicago's O'Hare Inn, a convention-attracting motel near O'Hare Airport, has started work on a $45,000 shelter under a new addition. The 60-ft. by 100-ft. shelter will protect 500 guests...