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Married. James Marion ("Jimmie") Fidler, 48, radio and newspaper cinemagpie; and ex-Airline Stewardess Adeline Cox McKnight, 25; he for the third time, she for the second; in Upland, Calif...
...Coast people saw in Herbert Hoover's food-hunting trek, a ragged, famished youngster in a Colombian cartoon begged for "a penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop; for 650,000 bags, which sell within Ecuador for $7 apiece wholesale, Hoover...
North of Quito, an old, worn-out locomotive huffed and puffed its way through steep mountain passes, carrying faithful Quitenos on their annual pilgrimage to the Virgin's upland shrine. Eating, singing and chattering pilgrims jammed the seats and aisles of the ancient wooden coaches, clung to roofs, windows and couplings...
Most of the 1,500 delegates were "hilakatas," elected heads of rural groups of the ancient Indian communes which have survived from the time when the Inca Empire ruled the Andean upland...
...assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled side-streets, or back to the upland milltown . . . with its grope-movie and its poolroom lit by gas, carry me back to the days before my wife put on weight, back to the years when beer was cheap and the rivers really froze in the winter...