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...that commonly rise at the start of the monsoon. Winds howling up to 100 m.p.h. washed 13-ft. tidal waves over the narrow channels of the Ganges delta, flooding the alluvial fields, smashing and flattening the green stalks of the vital jute crop, ripping apart banana, betel nut and coconut palm plantations, uprooting giant mango orchards and inundating thousands of acres of rice. In East Pakistan's capital of Dacca, 125 miles from the sea, millions spent four terrified hours in the dead of night as banshee winds raked off corrugated iron hut roofs and wound them around telephone...
Antagonized Monks. Madame's magic was not sufficient last week to over come 41 years of misrule, corruption and wholesale nationalization that has crippled Ceylon's once-flourishing economy based on tea, rubber and coconut. She had also antagonized the numerous and influential Buddhist monks, whose saffron-robed leaders were conspicuous on Senanayake's election platforms...
Physically, the school for which Hamilton set this goal is as spectacular as its symbol, the rainbow. Its 268-acre campus abounds in landscaped lawns, red and yellow hibiscus, shower trees and coconut palms. Semicircled by the greenery of Manoa Valley's bordering volcanic mountains, the campus overlooks Honolulu, Waikiki Beach and Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with...
...that he felt she "was going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks, who practice temperance, by promising to make Buddhism Ceylon's official religion, they refused for fear of coming under state control...
When the scientists swam under water to collect fish samples, they found hordes of parrot fish, surgeonfish and goatfish, and school after school of brightly striped convict fish; significantly, none of them appeared altered by radioactivity. A few species, however, did not come through so well. The coconut crab, once a delicacy of the atolls, is now inedible because it has retained such a high level of strontium 90. The reason is that when the crab molts, it eats its old shell for the mineral content and so reabsorbs its radioactivity...