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...circumstances that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started a forest fire. At almost the same time fires accidentally started in other parts of the forest. Whipped by changing winds, the fires met, melded, and ate their way through the U Minh at one-third...
...city commercial pros. "We are being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll. We throwed them out on their ears...
...Volkswagen factory made only 210 cars before it went into war production, and after V-E day it was a shambles, 60% destroyed by Allied bombs. Nordhoff, too, was part of the postwar wreckage-a lifelong German automan who, because he had manufactured trucks for the Wehrmacht, was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor...
...AUSTERITY. "I have severely forbidden the construction of sumptuous houses in order to reserve labor and resources," announced .Thieu, adding that he had given "strict instructions to close def initely the dancing bars and other dis guised nightclubs that are harmful to our good moral traditions and deprave our youth." Outdoor markets for smug gled and stolen goods were also or dered out of business...
Delegates are forbidden by Iowa law to be pledged to candidates. Because of this, McCarthy and Kennedy-backed delegates are permitted to change their minds about which of the anti-war candidates they will support before the national convention...