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Isfahan province (pop. 1.3 million) has by now vaccinated 750,000 people in towns and villages, is gradually reaching the rest of the settled inhabitants plus the estimated 200,000 nomadic herdsmen. The first four months of 1956 have brought a pleasant payoff: not a single case of smallpox reported, though epidemics have broken out as usual in several surrounding provinces...
...whom there are still 47,000 out of the thousands who immigrated to Libya when it was to become Mussolini's model col ony, still hold many of the best jobs, own the best farms, run the best businesses. Eight-tenths of the people are farmers or nomadic herdsmen, yet a U.N. survey team reports discouragedly that the country "is hardly able to afford an adequate diet for its own people...
...religion of Jarmo had probably changed to fit the agricultural life. In its ruins are no idols or magic pictures designed to improve the hunting. In their place are many female figurines, naked and obviously pregnant-proof that the' farmers and herdsmen of Jarmo had already developed a fertility cult...
...Dreaming Phoenix. Picturesquely, it was all that the old peddler had said it would be, an awesome "spreading bowl of light and color." But peace and happiness were not so evident, and before the brief summer was out, Salom had learned from the valley's dozen herdsmen families a universal truth: jealousy, betrayal and moral corruption haunt even the most isolated...
...noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray Marcos in the vanguard...