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...miserable hovels that one sees massed in the slums of La Paz or Cochabamba. They were solid, and only occasionally did one see a crack in the wall. And, in contrast to the piles of garbage that collect in the urban neighborhoods, here the streets were virtually spotless. I stopped at one house where a man was digging at some newly-sprouted crops that popped out of well-groomed furrows. In the small yard adjoining the house there were a couple of pigs eating out of a feeding trough. In the corner was a large, hemispherical earthen oven, where...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Last year at this time Bill Cleary's icemen were packing up for home and the annual Yule festivities with a spotless, undefeated, untied record through five contests. The squad had outscored its opponents by a whopping 35-14 and ranked number one in the East and number two in the nation. There would be no coal in the icemen's stockings...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...Lowell tackle football team finished the season with a spotless 6-0 record. Relying on solid defensive and offensive line play, spearheaded by Jim Jagger, and the versatility of quarterback Jerry Harper, the team has not been scored on in its six victories...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Fall Intramural Athletics: Lowell House Shines | 11/20/1973 | See Source »

...some would say-the reduction has gone even further, acting on Disney's earlier work in a steady process of self-cannibalization that increases to the extent that the early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within the natural bounds of his style, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Disney: Mousebrow to Highbrow | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celestial Pit Stop | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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