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India's monsoon rains drummed down on the makeshift rope-and-bamboo stadium in Madras, and Mexico's Davis Cup team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
Teaching the tribesmen basic military tactics and how to handle weapons, Cordell helped organize a strike force of 1 ,000 Rhades to assist in village defense and to take the initiative against the Viet Cong. Where once the illiterate tribesmen made notches on bamboo sticks to indicate the number of Communist guerrillas they had seen, Cordell taught them how to count with their fingers and toes. Each toe was a unit of ten; two toes and three fingers equaled 23 Reds. When the Viet Cong killed village pigs and cattle, Cordell saw that they were replaced; when tribesmen were wounded...
...actor who doesn't feel he's potentially a king should get off the stage and hide up a bamboo tree." See SHOW BUSINESS, Lawrence of Leeds...
...seems to think he is. "If I wasn't sure I could deliver the bloody goods, I would get off the bloody stage," says Peter. "Any actor who doesn't feel he's potentially a king should get off the stage and hide up a bamboo tree...
...pages out of ancient albums to calligraphic couplets, from spectacular wall scrolls to hand scrolls that were meant to be seen only a few inches at a time. There are scenes of jolly drunkenness and of men contemplating a waterfall, paintings ranging from lofty landscapes to spare sprays of bamboo, the nearest thing in nature to calligraphy. One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations in Red China have shown that the fountain and palaces...