Word: aridity
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...activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...much richer than Algeria. Morocco (pop. 9,000,000) is the most variegated of the three countries that once constituted French North Africa. In Morocco's north there are sweeping coastal plains and fertile valleys; in the south, the snow-capped Atlas Mountains soar 14,000 ft. above arid desert. Its cities range from modern Casablanca (pop. 700,000) with its bustling port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling desert town of Marrakech...
...Mysticism. The Lubavitcher movement, deriving its name from a small town in northern Russia, was founded by Shneur Zalman (1747-1812), a brilliant young Talmudist in White Russia who became a disciple of Hasidism. This was a movement of holy men (zaddiks) and their followers who reacted against the arid, hairsplitting Talmud-boring of 17th century Judaism with a kind of joyous mysticism; they have often been compared to the followers of St. Francis of Assisi. Shneur Zalman burned with Hasidism's hitlahavut (spiritual enthusiasm), but he recognized the need for organization and teaching as well, and he steered...
...Help of Retarded Children to strengthen and direct their demands for better clinics and training schools for feeble-minded children. A new book growing out of the association's work, Retarded Children Can Be Helped (Channel Press; $5), by LIFE Reporter Maya Pines and Photographer Cornell Capa, describes arid illustrates the latest techniques that can help two-thirds or more of retarded children to become poised, self-supporting adults...
After the Israelis refused to answer these questions which Jerusalem newspapers termed "an ultimatum," the Arab-Asian bloc this week moved to debate sanctions against Israel. Washington's hopes that Ben-Gurion would accept private U.S. assurances of support arid pull out gave way to pessimism; U.S. officials predicted that Israel's holdout would damage its own long-term self-interest...