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From the outward look of Syria, reported TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho last week, the regime has managed well. As if in reply to the mullah's chant, the drought that lasted straight through the four years of the United Arab Republic was broken the day after its dissolution, and the rains are now bringing the best wheat and cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created...
Across the U.S., even as they conducted their interminable public post mortems on the fallen star, other newspaper editors watched their sales soar-and silently endorsed the sentiments of the man from Hearst. For in the newspaper game, the dog days of August are a time of terrible drought. Circulation and advertising fall with a sickening thud; news simply evaporates under the late summer...
...Enchaine replied: "A seasonal departure which takes place once every 132 years." The wine harvest, which provides 50% of Algeria's exports, is withering on the vine as farmers leave for France, and one of the best wheat crops in history will barely top last year's drought harvest...
...likes to don a wide-brimmed straw hat, peel off his starched green uniform shirt, and work up a good sweat by chopping away in the sugar-cane fields. Last week he had some hardly reassuring words for his fellow cane workers struggling to get in Cuba's drought-blighted and sorely mismanaged sugar crop. Conditions in Cuba will surely change for the better, said Fidel, "in ten or twelve years...
...down in the chair and turn on television. What's on? Captain Kangaroo." Said Mrs. Joel Redlin, summing up a whole city's grievance: "I miss my paper. I miss it, that's all." Better than Nothing. Efforts have been made to relieve the news drought. The struck papers themselves bought radio time for a daily newscast, and some radio stations have amplified their own news coverage; the daily list of the dead, and even editorials, are now broadcast regularly; TV station WTCN pleaded on the air for an end to the strike. Neither radio...