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...small wonder then that after being in Mississippi for a week, everyone develops a certain set of reactions to color. A pair of freedom workers walks down a street at night in Holly Springs to buy a late supper. A car edges slowly along the curb, and both workers gaze intently trying to see the passengers in the light of the streetlamp. One finally speaks, "'s okay, they're the right color." And as the car of Negroes passes, the two white freedom workers relax...
...small wonder then that after being in Mississippi for a week, everyone develops a certain set of reactions to color. A pair of freedom workers walks down a street at night in Holly Springs to buy a late supper. A car edges slowly along the curb, and both workers gaze intently trying to see the passengers in the light of the streetlamp. One finally speaks, "'s okay, they're the right color." And as the car of Negroes passes, the two white freedom workers relax...
...scorns the practice of "roping people for fund-raising dinners in competition with restaurants." But the Very Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, each year raises $65,000 by a $100-a-plate dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The sociable, old-fashioned church supper remains a respected but inefficient way of raising funds...
...picking a site, finding drinkable water, sleeping on rib-gouging ground-not to mention the horrors of pitching a tent in a wind. Nowadays, however, the compleat camper can drive right up to the lakeside or forest glade where he plans to spend the night and immediately cook supper, take a shower and bunk down, regardless of the terrain or weather...
...rises at 6 a.m., puts in a 17-hour day fixing his own fences, keeping his own books, and tending to the innumerable details of his spread. He wears blue jeans or big floppy bombachas instead of fancy riding habits, generally sees his family for one meal a day-supper-and often spends his evenings driving to a nearby town to hear a lecture on modern farming methods. There may be a TV set on the place, but the gauchos are the ones who watch it. Says one estanciero, "TV is the difference between keeping your best men and losing...