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...throne of Quicksilver King. In the end, when Mammy and Bell quarreled, she pushed him over a staircase railing to his death (the murder was never proved against Mammy before she died in 1904 at the age of 87). Author Holdredge's solidly researched story suffers from arid stretches, but there is noth ing arid about beautiful Mammy Pleasant or the life she led her partner...
...convene a nationwide general election or to enact a constitution. It has yet to determine the place of religion in the state, though the Moslem faith is really all that binds together the two halves, which are separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India. West Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak Punjabi or Urdu, and supply most of the tough manpower for Pakistan's 250,000-man army and for its permanent civil service. East Pakistan is lush and Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they...
...Deep South, which to many music merchants has long looked like arid territory, a profitable but unsung musical monster is flourishing. Billed as "Gospel and Spiritual All-Nite Sing," it is colloquially called "gospel boogie" or, more earthily, "jumping for Jesus." It takes the form of regular shows in Southern cities, featuring vocal quartets and attended by capacity crowds who come to be entertained and, occasionally, converted...
...even less. Old maps labeled the area: "The Great American Desert (Uninhabitable)." But in irrigated areas the Great American Desert is blooming like a rose. Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers built the West's first modern irrigation project in 1847. Now, more than 25 million once-arid acres of the Western states produce an incredible profusion of fiber and grain, vegetables and fruits because of water dammed, sluiced, pumped and channeled from the Colorado, the Columbia and the West's other great rivers...
...MOTHER DITCH, by Oliver La Farge (Houghton Mifflin; $2.25), follows a young Spanish-American boy as he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow in the arid New Mexican soil that Novelist-Anthropologist La Farge (Laughing Boy) knows and loves...