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...customs die hard in a back country. Nowhere in Natal are the traditions of ancient India observed more strictly than on the backwoods Moonsammy banana farm near Sea Cow Lake. In nearby Durban, where many of South Africa's 365,000 Indians rub shoulders with the West, young Indian girls are often permitted to dance and date but Farmer Moonsammy kept his wife and five daughters always in the bondage of purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard...
...Entreguismo." In Argentina, which must sell beef in order to buy foreign oil, the saying goes that "every time you start a car you kill a cow." President Juan Perón wants foreigners to come in and produce enough oil to supply his country's needs and to staunch the wound that bleeds the economy of some $200 million a year. Perón last April signed the contract with California Standard, subject to legislative approval. Its main provisions were those that in general prevail throughout the world: 1) a 50-50 split of profits between government...
From the start, Berea's fees were minimal (it charges no tuition). Its first barefooted students merely brought whatever they could. Some came with potatoes, others with eggs; one boy walked 50 miles leading a cow. Then a few students began to bring homemade quilts, and these, President William Frost discovered, could be sold. From quilts, the students went on to furniture, gradually built up Berea's famed Student Industries which now do some $400,000 worth of business a year...
...paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing out silver dollars, hats, 100-lb. watermelons and boxes of pecan nuts for remembrances as he went along...
Russia, Dulles said, was faced with bankruptcy of its old policy. Cold war and hot threats had failed to cow Western Europe or to halt the rebirth of a rearmed, democratic Germany. The Soviets were overcommitted: with less than a third of U.S. industrial capacity, they were at tempting to keep up an atomic armament race with the U.S. An enormous part of Russia's armaments was disappearing in the maw of the Red Chinese dragon, and the Soviet people, under cruel economic burdens, were restive. It appeared the Soviet leaders wanted a "respite...