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...real soccer countries such as Spain and Brazil, championship games draw six-figure crowds. But when a mere 15,231 fans showed up at a Manhattan stadium last week to watch two of Europe's best teams compete for the American Challenge Cup, William Drought Cox, president of the International Soccer League, beamed with delight at the turnout. That is a big soccer crowd in the U.S.-big enough to make soccer...
...jokester did not call Gordon again for nearly a year. By then, Tulsa was thoroughly parched by the drought that has afflicted much of the Midwest and West this year. In June and again in early July, the man telephoned Gordon and promised to make it rain. Both times Gordon listed the agreed-upon dates in his column, and both times, contrary to Weather Bureau predictions, rain fell within 72 hours...
What Bryher eventually brings into view, however, is the enduring landscape along the fringes of a wasting war of occupation. Hannibal's army lives off the Italian countryside for decades at a stretch, until the danger from the war is as familiar a part of peasant life as drought or plague. The Italian villagers are loyal to Rome when the legions can defend them, comfortably acquiescent when the Carthaginians ride into town and offer better prices. To the fearful peasantry, Hannibal's few armored elephants loom dreadfully, like the roaming German Tiger Tanks of World...
Hardest hit by the drought are the farmers of the New Territories, who desperately need spring rains to save their rice and vegetable crops. Those farmers who own wells padlock them at night to foil water thieves. At week's end, the shortage had grown so serious that ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet were ordered to cease taking on potable water in Hong Kong "to avoid further drain on the local water supply...
Officially, the power company (known in Rio simply as "The Light") blames the rationing on a generator breakdown and a prolonged drought affecting hydroelectric reservoirs. But a Light executive privately concedes: "Even if the drought hadn't come, Rio would have had power rationing this month." Rio's power demands have been growing at an average of 8.3% per year, and the Light's capacity now falls 100,000 kw. short of peak-hour demands. Relief is not expected until the federal government's Furnas Dam project, with 600,000 kw. of installed capacity, goes into...