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...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
While a loudspeaker rippled out Mozart symphonies and Boccherini sextets and concessionaires did a brisk business in peanuts, long lines of Back Bay dowagers, soda jerks, businessmen and urchins filed through the five long exhibition tents to see what they could see. There was a handsome, windswept Yacht Race by old (82) Portraitist Charles Hopkinson, an expressionistic Adoration of the Magi by David Aronson, paintings by such artists as John Atherton, Gardner Cox, John Marih, George Grosz. And, from lesser lights, there were rows of wild abstractions and novelties, e.g., a huge sculpture done in living moss festooned with geraniums...
Eboli, wrote Novelist Carlo Levi, was where Christ stopped. He meant that beyond this dusty, windswept southern Italy city of 22,000, men lived without hope...
Dick was born in the windswept town of Winder (rhymes with binder) in the rolling, blood-red Georgia hills 52 miles northeast of Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...
...West Coast crews manage to show their wakes to the best in the East. With the Olympic rowing trials only seven weeks away, the East last week took a look at its chances. The best in the East-undefeated Navy, Pennsylvania and Harvard-raced in Boston's choppy, windswept Charles River Basin for the Adams...