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...Indonesians love peace as well. In the soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything...
...distance as possible. Each man made three passes while the pace car was traveling at 30 m.p.h., three passes while the pace car traveled at 50 m.p.h. Proper highway distances between cars were marked off by a red flag towed behind the pace car and another flag on a bamboo pole sticking out in front...
...court found him guilty. Its sentence (suspended pending appeal): four months' imprisonment, plus four strokes with a bamboo cane...
...June 1870, a Boston schooner skipper named Lorenzo Baker stopped at Port Morant, Jamaica, for a cargo of bamboo and some rum punch. While refreshing himself he bought-apparently with some misgiving-a load of bananas at 25? a bunch. The bananas were a bonanza; in the U.S. they brought $2.50 a bunch, and Captain Baker quickly went into the banana hauling business. Since then his company has grown into United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that...
...virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...