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New Mexico Quarterly Volume 25 | Issue 1 Article 1 1955 Full Issue University of New Mexico Press Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq Recommended Citation University of New Mexico Press. "Full Issue." New Mexico Quarterly 25, 1 (1955). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmq/vol25/iss1/ 1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of New Mexico Press at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Quarterly by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. : Full Issue Seami Sotoba Komachi'(No Play) Ernst Krenek The Three Overcoats of Anton K. (story) Paul V~liry Colloquy Within a Being ! 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Y. 2J Published by UNM Digital Repository, 1955 5 New Mexico Quarterly, Vol. 25 [1955], Iss. 1, Art. 1 ,I you think we are bound to vote THE for you because we like Cokes and EDITOR'S CORNER Cadillacs? R:No. nt~ SA: Then what do }'Ou mean with Franco? \\llat do you mean with that Chiang Kai.shek, who has SAT ItM CON V E R ION S 'tunk of rotten fish for fifteen OVE~HEARDINSOUTH years? What do you mean by al A l\f"E R'I CA: ways being on the wrong side these ~ days? . I R: Not always. Just mostly. Anybody South. American: ;Hombrc! What who shows he's against commu did you mean by that trumped-up nism g~ts admitted first·class to the business in Guatemala? Friends of America Abroad. It's a Repl,: I don't know. Was it as sim· poor standard of membership, but pIe at that? maybe no worse than. is usual in SA: It cost you more friends than it military alliances? was worth. Maybe more than you SA: But but and but, this is not a can a.fIord, How many can you , "usual" situation, eh? 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