Word: desertions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four U.S. engineers arrived to try to improve Jordan's incredible desert railroads (of 21 locomotives, only five are operable) and to devise a method of speeding up the unloading of cargo at the shallow-draft port of Aqaba. For the British, who are holding the lid tight on this boiling cauldron, the situation is becoming critical. Each possible move seems to create more problems than it solves...
This ceremony of "The False Departure"-which dates back to the day that one of the Naba's ancestors was persuaded not to desert his people to pursue a favorite runaway wife-is unique to the Upper Volta in the eight territories of French West Africa, but is in a way symbolic of the whole region's inheritance of paradox and anachronism. Next month Premier de Gaulle's new constitution will go before the people, who by choosing white or green cards will decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this...
...Touré's Guinea have inspired much confidence so far. Though Senegal was the first territory to be colonized, its economy still depends mostly on peanuts-a crop that gradually exhausts the soil. Mauritania, which has only four towns of 3,000 people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory, and Dahomey, the smallest, barely manage to survive...
...cluster of huts, has built a $21 million dam across the Niger River, on top of which lie the tracks for the still nonexistent Trans-Saharan Railroad (the railroad station is currently being used as an office building). The Office has reclaimed more than 108,000 acres of desert where cotton and rice can now grow, hopes eventually to have 2,000,000 acres under cultivation...
...film is visually, Producer Disney cannot resist gilding it with sentiment. Twelve times in the past ten years he has sent teams of crack camera crews into the world's boondocks to record the behavior of lesser-known animals and plants. Twelve times, e.g., in The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, the teams have returned with trunkloads of painstakingly gathered film, much of it unique. And twelve times Disney has taken the film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward the ocean...