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...Falls Dam, drops swiftly to the Sudan, where it snarls itself in the tangled vegetation of the Sudd-50,000 sq. mi. of swamp, amidst whose 14-ft.-papyrus thickets and convoluted blue ambatch flowers the river loses half its water in evaporation and drainage. The Blue Nile dashes headlong down the rain-wreathed mountains from Lake Tana, smoking through unnavigable gorges and scouring tons of rich earth from the Ethiopian highlands. Where the two meet at Khartoum, the darker tide of the Blue shoulders the White aside, bringing 84% of the system's total water volume into...
...endurance, no issue or individual to whom he would not offer a hayseed's aphorism or a statesman's advice. Ever since he took office five months ago, amid the numbing shock waves of John Kennedy's assassination, he has plunged into the presidency with a headlong velocity. No man in the White House has ever moved faster. Few have managed to brand their personality on the presidency so quickly and so indelibly. Corny as johnnycake, folksy as a country fiddler, persuasive as a television pitchman, he is also both efficient and effective, and he can already...
Likely to fall would be Burma, given its 1,370-mile frontier with Red China. Dictator Ne Win is plunging his country headlong into instant socialism, further dislocating a society racked by civil strife. In his two years in power, Ne Win has nationalized all banks, taken 70% of trade out of private hands. Two weeks ago, soldiers in battle dress invaded and seized more than 3,000 wholesale stores in Rangoon. Meanwhile, upwards of 2,500 political prisoners are behind bars-paradoxically including many Communists. Half a dozen insurgent guerrilla bands, two of them Communist, roam the hinterlands...
...trickiest games of the cold war is a sort of airborne electronic "chicken," in which a high-speed aircraft without warning dashes headlong for the enemy's border, turning away just in time. The game is played both by East and West, and not just for fun. From such phony forays has come a wealth of crucial information about one another's defense capabilities...
Clothing Retailer Robert R. Storrer of Owosso, Mich., speaks respectfully of the "extremely style-conscious teen, a year-round buyer. If he sees any item he likes, he buys it on impulse. A few calls for a style or color today may mean a headlong rush for it tomorrow." If the college crowd picks it up, and the clothiers climb on the bandwagon, the middle-aged man may find it on his back two years later without even knowing...