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Grateful Vietnamese farmers refer to fatherly, pipe-smoking John Barwick as Ong Cu Da (roughly, "Team Chief"), have showered the Americans with honors. From mountain villagers, for whom they demonstrated well-digging techniques, the teachers received-and all proudly wear-copper bracelets...
...turbulent present caught up with the age-old ways of the Batonga. In Salisbury, the decision was made to build a dam across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar...
Tarnished Copper. In Copenhagen, Inspector Povl Brondt, 51, Denmark's traffic-police chief, lost his right to drive for one year and got a 14-day jail sentence for drunken driving...
...Laundromat. The jobs, dreams and struggle of the new middle class are typically on display in Guadalajara (pop. 560,000), the once sleepy colonial capital of Jalisco state. In humming factories on the grassy hills around the city, men, women and machines make textiles, copper tubing, shoes, mattresses, Nescafe, paper bags, fertilizer, matches, glass, plumbing supplies, corn sirup, and the oils of cottonseed, peanuts and sesame. In the city are the concrete skeleton of a high new medical center, a sprawling new market, the circular sweep of a new sports arena, the glassy modern blankness of expensive new houses...
...federation, which is larger than Britain, France, Holland and Germany combined, was founded in 1953 by welding the protectorates of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. The Central Africa Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses...