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When you return, you stroll across the road to Don Efren's house. He's sitting outside looking down at his foot, which is swollen and oozing from a week-old axe cut. He's been to the doctor in Calpulalpan, so it should be all right. His daughter, thin, bright-eyed Ofelia, comes out and tells you how she's going to go in the sixth grade in San Martin and then become a nurse. Her younger sisters, giggling wildly, hurl sombreros in the air and watch the wind take them. Her mother, Dona Rosa, invites...
...copies of the New York Times went on sale, they were snapped up in less than an hour. Five hundred Chicago papers, sold by scalpers at more than twice the regular price, were gone in less than 30 minutes. When nothing else remained, one desperate man bought a week-old Chicago Tribune. "I don't care," he told the newsdealer. "I'll read anything...
Describing his government as a "week-old baby that is beginning to flex its muscles," Acheampong spoke almost plaintively about the problems ahead. "Yes," he sighed, "I know it's going to be a herculean job against fearful odds, but with the help of Almighty God, I will prevail." As he rightly suggested, he is going to need all the help...
After police reversed the week-old policy of refusing to allow demonstrators to pay collateral, a steady stream of persons were released throughout Monday night...
...even allowing this much, why had WHRB not at least informed the public of the week-old cancellation, notes on the door notwithstanding? Simple enough, according to the promoter-since the concert itself had been little publicized, why bother to publicize the cancellation? Nothing ventured, nothing gained...