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...Communists were not the only ones who could wage successful rebellion in Asia. Last week Karen tribesmen, mostly Baptist, held much of Burma's richest land. They had taken Mandalay, and were in control of the Irrawaddy valley; their guns ringed the capital, Rangoon. Two months ago whole regiments of Karens rose in open rebellion against the government. The tough hill tribesmen, led by a handsome ex-Rangoon lawyer, Saw Ba U Gyi, had grown tired of waiting for the infant Burma Union to grant their demand for a separate state. They planned their attack for a propitious time...
...months ago, the 2,000-tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
Nineteen years ago, U.S. experts stopped the black fly's first severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
...True Truth. There has never been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...
Eighty birthdays, thought Arturo Toscanini, were enough for a while. When his musicians sent him a present on his becoming an octogenarian two years ago, he forbade them to do it again. One relenting proviso: if they liked, they might each save a dime a year to buy him a present when he reached 90. Until then, he scowled, no more fuss...