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...President Kennedy's desk last week was a 50-page report written by a three-man team*sent to Bolivia with orders to "review the status and effectiveness of U.S. economic policies in Bolivia." The fact-finding team spent twelve days in the barren, mountainous Altiplano, getting a first-hand look at the problems of a nation that is rich in minerals but little else...
...grace when he swings a long leg over the saddle and rides out to the field trials to match his bird dogs against the best in the nation. Rival trainers unabashedly gawk when Morton and his pointers begin to hunt for quail in the South's winter-barren cornfields and amid the tufts of sedge and lespedeza. "Clyde Morton," says one owner, "is to dog trials what Babe Ruth was to baseball...
...patients themselves are the kind that make trouble for the attendants--hence they are "bad," because a "good" patient at the Met is one who sits still and says nothing. It is easier for the staff to deal with bad patients, when they have all been shepherded into one barren room. There is no danger that a television will be damaged by destructive hands, because E-3 has no television...
...jacket, was precariously perched half out of the narrow cockpit, with one leg braced against a wing strut. After two hours of buffeting, Félix, who had never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara. Swimming for shore, Félix stopped to catch his breath, telling Rafael to push ahead. That was the last time Rafael saw his friend alive...
Astronomer Edward Israel, fresh out of the University of Michigan, babbled of home and mother's cooking, then collapsed. The first twelve men to die were dragged to a barren hillock and covered with gravel. After that, the weakened survivors could do no more than push the emaciated corpses into a tidal crack...