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Almost half of Latin America's 120,000,000 inhabitants are sick with diseases that are not incurable, but from most of which they will never recover. Smallpox has wiped out entire villages; tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid are always rampant. Hundreds of thousands suffer from exotic and mysterious home-grown...
> He likes to draw bizarre eight-legged animals, fantastic warships and submarines, exotic human heads.
Members of the cast included the choirmaster of the First Baptist Church, two Converse College students, a voice teacher, a movie usher, a private at nearby Camp Croft. Local, too, was the composer, for dark, rugged Ernst Bacon, 43, is dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse...
As the U.S. Air Force in Australia reached across the Torres Strait to smash at the Jap on New Guinea, airmen from Main Street got acquainted with exotic strangers.
For other cordage, the Hemisphere has a wealth of fibers. Chief commercial ones are sisal and henequen, which grow more or less prolifically in Yucatan, Cuba, Haiti, other parts of Latin America. Exotic fibers-caroa, guaxima, papoula de Sao Francisco from Brazil, cabuya from Ecuador, pita and fique from Colombia...