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...summer in southern California and all their hopes were blasted by the wrath of the sun and of the wind. The drought came, and though they carried water to their virtually inaccessible fields, still their crops withered: potatoes came forth shriveled from the ground, the feathery tops of the carrots appeared to be molting and the very grass drooped sadly...
Most Americans still think of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, and the Okies who left it, in the bleak terms of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The long drought of the 1930s seared the land, while recurring winds swirled away the topsoil and black blizzards choked crops and cattle. During that decade, more than 350,000 farmers fled the state, leaving a legacy of deserted homes, barren lands and bitter people. In recent years the Dust Bowl has changed dramatically. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, who revisited the region, tells how and why in this report...
Cold Snap. Still, there are signs in Hanoi of worn morale, reduced capabilities and painful reassessment. Aside from the war, North Viet Nam has borne more than its share of nature's blows in the past year-a summer drought and a fall flood, an epidemic of deadly hemorrhagic fever, an earthquake, and last week a cold snap that plunged temperatures in Hanoi to freezing. There was the loss of Ho Chi Minh -and, with him, the vision of Uncle Ho entering Saigon in triumph and presiding over a united country...
...Korean War. The economic distortions produced by tight money, however, have revived the demand for stringent credit control. Advocates argue that big corporations have found it comparatively easy to arrange loans while small companies have been turned down and home buyers and builders have suffered from a severe mortgage drought...
...severe are the shortages that a standard joke in Rangoon, which averages 100 inches of rain a year, is that if the government decided to nationalize water, there would be a drought. Rice exports continue to decline, dropping from 1,800,000 tons in 1962 to an expected 600,000 tons this year...