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...riverbank, marches through rice fields and coconut groves, curls around the spurs of two foothills, across a marshy neck of the sea, and returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became a wall, 20 ft. wide at the base, 4 ft. at the top. The sides are porcupined with thousands of closely sown bamboo slivers sharpened to a needle point. Atop the wall the villagers strung two strands of barbed wire on steel stanchions. Then the moat was filled with...
...that Communism ruled one-third of the earth's people and controlled one-fourth of the earth's land surface. Beyond the Iron and Bamboo Curtains were 6,000,000 Communists, more or less loyal to Soviet Russia. How badly that image has been shattered was illustrated by the very birthday greeters who came-or failed to come -to Moscow. Khrushchev apparently wanted to prepare a full-dress Communist summit meeting to condemn China. Instead of simply calling such a meeting and dictating the resolutions, Khrushchev had to plead and argue with foreign parties, including those from...
Spain of the Sixties. Individually the countries may seem too exasperating and unimportant to bother about. Their per capita income (with the exception of Malaysia) averages between $50 and $100 a year; their illiteracy rate is 30% or 40% ; their political stability is about as solid as a bamboo in a breeze. Yet taken as a whole, they matter greatly. Says a veteran U.S. foreign officer in Hong Kong: "Southeast Asia is the Spain of the 1960s. If we can't and don't win here, how can any friend of ours believe we can win anywhere...
...tinikling, and your toes will be squashed if you don't get them out in a big hurry. The tinikling is a Philippine dance, and the object is to see what deft steps you can pull off while hopping in and out between the two rhythmically clapping bamboo poles. So while he was over at the Philippine embassy in Washington to accept an award, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 48, gamely shed shoes and tried his foot at it. He even managed a smile when a spectator sport heckled: "Go under it, man! Limbo...
They are being made of almost anything and everything-polyester fiber glass, alloy aluminum, weatherproofed cardboard, plastic, bamboo. More than 50 companies have taken out licenses to make them in the U.S. alone. The small domes are light enough to be lifted by helicopter, and they practically build themselves. Non-English-speaking Eskimos can put them together in a matter of hours out of color-coded components. The day his company began erecting a geodesic auditorium in Hawaii, Henry J. Kaiser hopped a plane from San Francisco to see the work in progress, but it was finished by the time...