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...traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain. On the day the thunderbird came back to its rightful owners, so did much rain, big thunder...
...Peking's People's Dally dolefully informed readers that in 1960 half of China's cropland had been visited by drought, floods, hordes of insects or other natural disaster. While Russia, with bumper crops in the Ukraine and northern Caucasus to compensate for Kazakhstan's losses, may yet do a little better than 1959's thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished...
Although the Greeks started Olympic competition, they have not done much about it in recent years; indeed, until last week, they had not won a gold medal since 1912. Ending the drought was a Dragon Class yachtsman-and crown prince-Constantino, 20. When the victorious, shorts-clad prince came ashore at Santa Lucia, King Paul and Queen Frederika-themselves sailing buffs-jettisoned royal reserve to hug the handsome champion. Then the queen stepped aside while Constantine's two royal sisters showed their exuberance by pushing him right back into Naples...
...film's heroines. During ten days on the Belem-Bracanga railroad, the company lost some of their clothes to sparks from the wood-burning engine; the train had no brakes and derailed itself at least once a day. Also aboard were refugees from back-country drought land, and when one woman bore a baby on a rolling flatcar, Camus kneaded that into the story. Drawing on nearly every member of his crew, which included a Vietnamese script girl and mechanics from Guinea and Japan, he ordered them before the lenses whenever new roles came to mind...
Part of the trouble down on China's farms was caused, as so often in China's history, by natural disasters-drought and insect pests in the northern provinces, floods along the southern coast. But nature's harshness was compounded by the adoption last year of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "three-thirds" theory of agriculture, under which one-third of China's land was to be left fallow each year, one-third was to be given over to forest and the final third to be intensively cultivated Japanese-style...