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When-and if-the potatoes ripen, the Indians will eat some of them fresh, save others for seed, and turn the rest into chuño. Chuño-making begins when the temperature at night falls below freezing. Potatoes are left out to freeze, then thaw when the sun rises. Barefoot Indians tread out the moisture, leave the potatoes to freeze again, tread some more. After a fortnight they have chuño-a dehydrated potato that, with luck, will last all winter...
...people have gone down from the airless plateau to new farm areas near Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Caranavi. Over the next eight years, Paz plans to spend about $120 million on new roads. He wants to resettle 380,000 more people around hospital-school community centers, advance them tools, seed and food (eventual repayment will come to $1,345 per family), give them technical advice and turn them into productive farmers. "The old Bolivia is up there on the altiplano," said Paz last week. "The new Bolivia is down below...
Santayana's autobiography, Persons and Places, now issued complete in one volume for the first time, is less autobiography than a series of biographies of his contemporaries. The ideal human life, wrote Santayana, is an "evolution of a given seed toward its perfect manifestation." Most of Santayana's acquaintances failed to evolve, and this book is a record of their defeats: portraits etched in acid and affection. There was the romantic poet Lionel Johnson, "a spiritual waif who couldn't endure the truth, but demanded a lovelier fiction to revel in, invented, or accepted it, and called...
...destined to fade. "Can you start a new tabloid in ten days?" asked Arthur Brisbane, who was William Randolph Hearst's chief editorial lieutenant. "Nine," replied Walter Howey, who was to be the Mirror's new editor. He was nearly as good as his word. From seed, the Mirror bloomed in two weeks. It was a frank imitation of Captain Joseph Patterson's five-year-old Daily News, the U.S.'s first successful tabloid. But hardly had one copycat arisen when there was another: Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic, a meretricious tabloid compounded of "composographs...
WHEREAS: 16 men from Joe Galatte & Sons Landscaping Firm commenced planting 1,000 pounds of grass seed on the main Quadrangle April 28--Buildings and Grounds...