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...None of our problems," he warned, "can compare in gravity with the spread of aftosa among the cattle." Last fortnight, the joint U.S.-Mexican commission directing the anti-aftosa campaign reported that it would last from one to five years, depending on the cooperation of the Mexican people. But sullen unrest against the slaughter of diseased cattle is spreading among farmers, and cooperation may be hard...
That was a year ago, and Miller's fame spread through the Georgia backcountry. Last fortnight he got up another shout in Summerville, a county seat in the northwest corner of the state. It started just before sundown, and by 10:30 the moaning and shouting and singing were going strong. Then Preacher Miller brought out the "salvation cocktail." He shouted: "Brother Davis, do you believe in the power of the Lord great enough to take what's in this bottle?" Farmer Ernest Davis, 34, grabbed the glass, took several gulps...
...Last fortnight, Colonial asked CAB if it wouldn't just skip the hearing and issue an order one way or the other. In support of its free-ski policy, Colonial added: "Skis are standard apparel for many people during many months of the year. To charge extra for a pair of skis would be tantamount to charging extra for a pair of overshoes." But at week's end, ponderous CAB had not yet terminated or illuminated its obscuration...
...fortnight ago, the Paraguayan rebels seemed to have all but won the war. They had made a bold move in abandoning their base in Conception (TIME, Aug. 18), to strike down river against the capital of Asunción, 130 miles to the south. But as they smashed into the city, Dictator Higinio Morinigo's army got an unexpected shot in the arm: new arms and munitions...
William Saroyan, who also writes, prepared to send up another Saroyanesque rocket after a long, tense quiet. Out next fortnight: a new play (not yet produced), called Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine. "The action takes place in a transparent egg shell," announced Publishers Harcourt, Brace in ventriloquial tones, "inside which are miserable and majestic ruins, representing immemorial and immediate reality...