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...Small Doubt. Would Arcaro ride him in the Derby Keen-eyed, banana-nosed Eddie wore the expression of a faintly satisfied but still skeptical banker, still trying to make up his mind about a big loan. Eddie wanted to see what Hill Prince would do in this week's second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. "He's just as good as he was last year," Arcaro said. "But he's never had to go more than 6á furlongs in a race. Some people doubt he can go for distance and might hang...
Politics and sex were the topical, tropical themes. The audience shrieked, howled, giggled and roared with delight at the syncopated innuendoes of the Mighty Dictator's unabashed Banana Song,Young Kitchener's eye-rolling Me Grandfather's Clock and a mildly sexy number called If You Love Your Man and Your Man Loves You, Lady, Enjoy Yourself. But the biggest roar, and the judges' nod, went to politically attuned Attila. His Give Up the West Indies, Britain said just what the crowd wanted said...
...Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the country. Buildings, including a stove factory in Jerusalem, collapsed under the heavy load of snow on the roofs. Israel's entire citrus fruit crop (the country's No. 1 export), the tomato crop and half of the estimated banana crop were destroyed...
When shaggy-haired William Alexander Bustamante tours the Jamaican countryside, field hands from the cane and banana plantations crowd around him singing a native song called We Will Follow-Bustamante Till We Die. Last week it was clear that the chorused pledge was something more than a catchy calypso lyric. In the British island's general election, Bustamante and his Labor Party squeezed back into power for a second five-year term. It was Bustamante's faithful plantation workers, overpowering the heavy urban vote rolled up by the rival socialist People's National Party, who saved...
...combined, pop. 7,200,000) could be a strong redoubt; it is one of Asia's most prosperous areas, carefully developed by the Japanese in half a century of colonial rule. Its paddy fields can grow three rice crops a year. It has large sugar and tea plantations, banana groves,, camphor forests. Its Jap-built industry includes sugar mills, waterworks, hydroelectric stations, an aluminum plant...