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Hong Kong is suffering critically from the longest drought in years. The vital textile dyeing industry lost an estimated $1,700,000 in the first four months of this year. The only brewery faces curtailed production, and deliveries of soft drinks have fallen 60%. The reservoirs are so nearly dry that Hong Kong authorities last week imposed a strict new ration on the city: four hours of running water every other day. In private homes water is used first for bathing, then for washing clothes, finally for gardens. Ordinarily. Hong Kong buys 5 billion gallons of water annually from...
...Republicans charged, was trying to turn the referendum into a "pressurendum." Freeman has an unforeseen ally on his side-the dry weather that has afflicted great stretches of the Great Plain this spring. Western Kansas saw its driest April since 1887. Six counties in Colorado have asked for governmental drought assistance. As some observers see it, many wheat farmers who might otherwise vote against Freeman will look at their parched fields and decide that they are going to need all the federal help they can get. So far, nobody has accused Freeman of rigging the weather...
...General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts caused by a dollar drought...
...space" or "man in an extreme environment." He could just as well be defining the history of Australia itself. Like the U.S. Wild West, Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...
...more to Rusk. As an old China hand who remembered famines that reduced millions of human beings to eating bark, selling their children, or just dying in the streets, Snow found China's material progress since 1949 pretty incredible. Although he was in China during a year of severe drought in some areas and floods in others, he found that an equitable rationing system introduced by the government had virtually eliminated the old problem of starvation. (Actually industrial workers, pregnant women, and children get special dispensation.) Snow personally investigated almost every province in which American journals (which...