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Daveron's repugnance to mules had a foundation that was laid in 1942. That was the year the U.S. Rubber Development Corp., desperately trying to boost Amazonian rubber production for war, decided that the seringueiros (rubber workers) needed mules for jungle transportation, and bought 1,800 of them in Sao Paulo State, in southern Brazil. But moving them 3,500 miles northwest (as the mule files) turned out to be the biggest part of the problem. An ex-canned-goods salesman, abetted by a lottery-ticket salesman and a former bus driver, gave up the job after losing more...
Smarting over since his defeat on the Charles to the strokes of the 'Cliffe crewmen, the Harvard Male has been thirsting to assert his traditional superiority . . . in something. Yesterday an intrepid group of Bellboys shouldered the responsibility for vindicating College honor, and engaged a formidable aggregation of Amazonian field-hockeyers on the Browne and Nichols gridiron, with scattered support from Wellesley and some finishing school ringers...
...Peru's Amazonian fields may be even richer than million-barrel-a-day Venezuela...
First to Flow. Without doubt, black gold abounded in the Montana-as Peruvians call their Amazonian foothills east of the Andes. A jungle-whacking, California-financed wildcatter-the Ganso Azul (Blue Goose) Petroleum Co.-had long since proved that. Last week, Ganso Azul was hard at work, as it had been for seven years, not exploring but producing, cracking petroleum and selling gasoline, kerosene and diesel...
Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they...