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...That people pull down their houses, sell their wives and daughters, eat roots and carrion, clay and leaves, is news nobody wonders at. It is the regular thing . . . The poorest people are dependent on willow and elm leaves, elm bark, and the various weeds . . . All the elm trees about many of the villages are stripped of their bark as high as the starving people can manage to get; they would peel them to the top but haven't the strength...
...first business before Monday's meeting was the election of various town officials-among them Fence-viewer, Surveyor of Lumber and Bark, and Clam Commissioner. The next items in the warrant covered every sort of town problem: among them a plant to install parking meters in the center of town, appropriations for the repair of the Town Wharf, the need for a new fire engine. Each article in the warrant had been considered by the town's Finance Committee, a part appointive, part elective board, and this committee made recommendations to the meeting...
...Yugoslav Parliament, Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj last week boasted: "Relations with the United States, Great Britain and France have been improved . . . The U.S.S.R. has said that no country can exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonistic power . . . We have proved it can . . . While dogs bark, the caravan passes...
Another exhibit shows bark cloth (tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...
...later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...