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Seven Steps to Heaven (Miles Davis; Columbia) has an ominous ring to it, but the trumpet sounds reassuringly earthy and much better behaved than it has in its owner's recent past. Especially memorable: Basin Street Blues, a poignant narrative of lasting sorrow in Davis' well-known brooding approach...
Germany's Ruhr, the great Pittsburgh and Ohio Valley complex, Russia's Do nets Basin - the areas where vast resources and power combine-long ago made their fabulous mark. Another of the world's great areas, in the eyes of geopoliticians, is just beginning to touch its potential. It sprawls, bigger than France, in Brazil's temperate heartland (see map). It is called Minas Gerais (pronounced mee-nesh jer-aye-eesh). However exotic the words sound in Portuguese, they simply mean General Mines-a most pedestrian description of a land of beauty and wealth...
...good medical record, and the city's Europeans generally choose it over the new government hospital. Few hospitals anywhere can offer such a dedicated staff, or one that lives as austerely. Each of the doctors and nurses occupies a single room equipped with iron bed, enamel wash basin and kerosene lamp; meals usually consist of fried bananas and other fruit. The old man stubbornly refuses to go modern. Says he: "Circumstances command that the hospital be primitive in keeping with the primitive state of the people." He believes that Africans enjoy discomfort, and that they are often afraid...
...conditioned hotel was built at Aswan to handle the traffic; an Aswan-Abu Simbel service went into operation with hydrofoil launches, one of which sank this spring, drowning two Frenchwomen. Business boomed-and now it may go on and on. When Lake Nasser has filled its tremendous basin, tourists will be able to float to the temple door, where the huge statues of Ramses II, their saw wounds healed and inconspicuous, will be waiting to greet all visitors...
...Arizona contended, or to the main stream plus the tributaries. as California claimed. California's interpretation, unsurprisingly, would work greatly to California's advantage. Not a single river in California flows into the Colorado, but virtually the entire state of Arizona lies within the Colorado River Basin. If all of Arizona's streams and rivers that feed into the Colorado were included in the waters to be divvied up between the two states, Arizona would be entitled to a lot less water from the main stream and California could take a lot morea million acre-feet more...