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...United's new plantations on the Pacific coast and in the Dominican Republic, homes for workers-complete with kitchen and Stateside toilet-are as big an advance over older hovels as a Park Avenue apartment over a cold-water flat. Minimum wages, though still less than $1 a day, are half again as high as those paid on Guatemalan-owned plantations...
Post manager at Arctic Bay for the past three years has been chubby (over 200 lbs.), good-natured bachelor James Bell, who lives in one of the old-style Hudson's Bay houses: two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, office. Nearby are a store, warehouse, fuel sheds and a "blubber shed," where dog teams eat company walrus meat; a meteorological station built by the U.S. Army but now manned by four Canadians. In the area are about 150 Eskimos; 25 miles to the south is an Anglican missionary...
...bird of evil. Kweiyang folk indulged in a kind of three-day gambling festival. In Yunnan no one would think of gambling (because if you gamble on New Year's you will gamble all year long); children gathered odd-shaped stones to represent bad luck, cast them into kitchen ovens to be purged...
...castrating knives down the well. Then they tiptoed into the farmhouse, gazed with awe at the luxury of feather mattresses, the Brussels carpet and a lithograph of Queen Victoria. The animals voted unanimously that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. Some hams, found hanging in the kitchen, were reverently buried...
Cleanup. In Puente, Calif., burglars broke into H. L. Underwood's house, took everything, including the kitchen sink...