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...parasites lose their reproductive powers after two or three years. In areas where the mosquitoes are resistant to DDT, another insecticide, dieldrin, will be used. Where the mosquitoes bite in the open, preventive drugs will be used in addition to spraying. Example: the entire table-salt supply for the Amazon Valley is now being laced with chloroquine to build up the inhabitants' resistance...
...Sahara Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the Amazon and Mississippi, crashing waterfalls higher and wider than Niagara, and snow-clad mountains on the equator's rim soaring skyward beyond any in Europe. And there today, in the limitless stretches of land over which these giants stood silent sentinel for centuries, is a whole new world of men suddenly...
Tepees & Chateaux. One photographer waited an entire week to shoot a burrowing owl going into a hole and coming out again. Another cameraman was speared by a savage while working along the Amazon. In making a film called Indian Family of Long Ago, E.B.F. experts had to teach the actors, some Sioux from South Dakota, how to put up tepees, pack a travois (a primitive sledge), and shoot bows and arrows. When Producer Milan Herzog made his series on medieval life, nothing would do but to shoot it in real French chateaux that had been especially decorated with priceless furniture...
...been thought before Lathrap's discovery that the Montana Indians were a link to the highly civilized Inca cultures discovered during the Spanish Conquest. Lathrop's evidence, however, indicates that the area was culturally related to the regions in the Amazon and on the shores of the Caribbean...
Eddy Duchin Story, in Technicolor, continuous from 1:30 p.m., at the U.T. Also, The Amazon Trader...