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Statistics show that many of the dreams are coming true. Mexico now prefers bread to the corn tortilla. In 1937 the average consumer ate 41 lbs. of wheat bread a year; now he eats 62 lbs. He switches from pulque (the fermented juice of the century plant) to beer. In 1941 per capita consumption of beer was 97 quarts; today it is 25. He spends money to see movies, bullfights and soccer games. In 1936 the average Mexican spent 1.42 pesos on entertainment; last year it was 7.05. He begins riding, if only a bicycle. Bike registrations climbed from...
...breakfast he likes papaya and huevos rancheros-fried eggs with spicy tomato sauce on a tortilla, with a side of beans. By 8:30 he is at work, stays at it until 4 p.m., then quits for Mexico City's typically heavy (steak and trimmings), typically drawn-out (two hours) dinner. Back at work at 6 or thereabouts, he works into the evening, then spends an hour or two in a smoking jacket with a detective story or Beethoven on stereophonic hifi. He likes to play canasta and watch fights...
...Squibb of Rutgers University and Dr. Moises Behar, a Guatemalan pediatrician. It contains 50% corn meal, 35% high-protein sesame meal, 9% cottonseed meal, 3% Kikuyu grass (for vitamin A) and 3% nonfermenting yeast. The mixture cooks into a tasty porridge or a cake that tastes like the familiar tortilla. Last year Scrimshaw tried it on a test group of Guatemalan children. Said Scrimshaw: "The children had swollen bellies, black skin, open sores, were apathetic, suffered from lack of appetite and were underdeveloped. After three weeks, the swelling and the sores were gone, and the kids were starting...
...behind him."Who digs the land,"the Indians say, "digs his own grave." He pauses, arrested in a Mexican Angelus. Somewhere in this howling world, in a bare mud hut, his child is crying in a basket, and by a tiny fire his wife slaps stolidly at a small tortilla that will be his only supper. The heart of the Indian fills with dread. If he cannot make some money soon, they will all starve. If only he had a cow, he could sell the milk...
This is the central situation of John Steinbeck's latest booklet-an underdone novel and overdone gag which is a long, long way from wrathful Okies and Tortilla Flat. After Author Steinbeck and the Assembly make their momentous decision, there are of course almost as many pretenders in France as there ever were premiers, but the royal prize goes to a man who does not seek it-M. Pippin Arnulf Héristal, a distant collateral relation of Charlemagne...