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...before dawn. By the time I was Zinacanteco would already have the fire heating an earthenware pot of dark beans which had been simmering all night, while we slept under our open, cane-thatched shelter. For breakfast we ate the beans, all of us sitting around the same pot, each scooping out his beans with a toasted tortilla...
Work begins slowly. The men lounge in corners, chatting about home and family, pinching the waitresses as they arrive. Slowly the tempo of preparation rises. Cleavers whack, pots rattle, steam billows up. Jokes and insults fly like salt and pepper; the chef gives the back of his nasty old tongue to a cook caught pilfering a pullet; the broiler man tips a pot of boiling water off a rack and-YEEEOOOWWW...
...Four plaice! . . . Two turbot! ... I got six steaks! . . . Four plaice, please, ducks! . . . Three cutlets, Hans! . . . Two omelettes! . . . Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...
...will take more than quickness for Harvard to win today--more than anything, the Crimson needs a great big pot of luck.CAPTAIN PETE HART...
...land at the Communist guards as each paces out his five hundred feet or so along the edge. From both sides they regard each other through binoculars and, occasionally, when an Eastern guard has become unnerved because of some tourist with a camera, e fires a pot shot across the line...