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...both settlers and scientists knew that something very strange lived in the Serra dos Dourados. In 1955 an unusual frost hit northern Parana, destroying jungle fruit and game. Starving Indians crept out of the jungle to pillage the vegetable garden of the Fazenda Santa Rosa, a backwoods farmhouse. The frightened manager sent for help from the Indian Protection Service...
...agriculture, know no metal, make no pottery. They sleep on the ground instead of in hammocks as most Brazilian primitives do. Their weapons are bows and arrows and stone axes. Their knives are sharp flakes of stone. They eat everything that they can find or kill in the jungle-fruit, insects, snakes, roots too fibrous for white men's stomachs. In times of plenty, they make fermented drinks and go on binges...
Though the cost-of-living index for November rose slightly with the price rises of new cars, Government economists expect lower pork, fruit and vegetable prices to hold the index down until spring. Prices went down at Montgomery Ward; the giant mail-order house cut 16,042 items by an average of 10%. pegged some items lower than they have been at any time since...
...economy is not the fruit of revolution but of the rapid change of U.S. capitalism to meet the vast, growing needs of the population it serves so well. In the new economy many of the old classical rules of economics no longer apply; over the years the U.S. has made and learned new rules all its own. The test-and the proof that the U.S. had learned its lessons well-was the recession. It not only highlighted the changes in the economy, but proved beyond doubt that the U.S. could take a hard knock and come bouncing quickly back...
...chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble as my own people...