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...peccary," when he said "pessary." But it isn't offensive, and her humor takes other forms. She is ironic, too, often with great subtlety. And she has a number of neat phrases, as when a party guest described the cake: "it's like eating frosted absorbent cotton...
...underdeveloped Brazil, the state of Paraná occupies a vital niche. From its fertile soil come 45% of the country's coffee, 90% of its newsprint, and huge quantities of corn, cotton and beans. Last week Brazil's most prosperous farm state was going up in flames-victim of one of the worst fires in any country's history. Scattered over 50,000 sq. mi., or more than half the state, the fires reduced vast forests of pine, cedar and eucalyptus to ashes, turned coffee plantations and pastures into scorched wastelands, devoured homes and destroyed thousands...
Only 22 hours after Paraná's Governor Ney Braga requested U.S. aid, three planeloads of food, medicine, tents, fire fighters, doctors and nurses landed in Parana. A U.S. Navy Task Force in Rio on maneuvers provided gauze, cotton and medication for fire victims. Top U.S. fire-control experts flew in immediately, including Merle Lowden, chief of the fire-control division of the U.S. Forest Service. Peace Corps doctors and nurses opened a 100-bed hospital in Tibagi, where U.S. officials began doling out supplies. Homeless and penniless the refugees may be, says a Brazilian in Tibagi, "but most...
...carefully balances caution against the daring needed to win. "I know they're always going to have a rodeo next week," he smiles. "I'm not going to do anything to get myself hurt." Alabama-born, Big Jim has been bull-dogging almost 20 years, now grows cotton on a farm near Dallas. He tends it carefully in good years and leaves it readily when the sun-withered crop is poor. "They say they can tell how bad my cotton crop is by how much I win," he grins. But his career winnings-about $150,000 to date...
...whole messy business in the lap of Congress-where Kennedy had pitched it five weeks ago by asking for legislation setting up compulsory arbitration machinery. Congress also would have loved to stay aloof-but now there was little choice. "The time has come," said New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, senior Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, "for us to fish, cut bait, or go ashore...