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Through rolling backlands in the five states that form Brazil's eastern bulge, crops of beans, corn and sugar cane were dead; 2,000,000 people gnawed cactus, dug holes in dry river beds for water or joined a dogged, starving march to the sea. The flagelo da seca, the dry whip that lashes the bulge country on the average of once a decade, was in its third month of fury. Some 370,000 flagelados (whipped ones) supported themselves and their families on relief wages of 30? a day -half the food allowance of a Brazilian army horse...
...weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will...
...risen that Case could run "for several months" on present orders; dealers must wait more than two months for some models. The biggest season for sales of heavy farm equipment is still ahead; more than 50% of the demand for such heavy-duty equipment as hay balers, combines and corn pickers comes in the second half of the year...
...predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...
...those days, two hours of Shakespeare was a heady gamble, but Evans' Hamlet was a whacking success, and Hallmark was credited with breaking TV's time barrier. Since then, Hall of Fame has put on some of TV's best dramatic shows, ranging from The Corn Is Green to Annie Get Your Gun and Twelfth Night, with such able actors as Mary...