Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...praise. Brazil is a major target, and hundreds of prominent Brazilian leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land reform and sing, "What harm is there in a ship/Carrying our common Brazilian coffee/And selling it to a China/Where there is no Chiang Kai-shek...
...Unknown Animal. By current Congolese standards one of the bright spots in the nation's health picture is Beni -a village at the northeast tip of remote Kivu province. Beni's modern. Belgian-built hospital is staffed by two physicians on loan from the Irish Red Cross; a new X-ray machine and cases of operating-room equipment are stacked against its walls, and the dispensary is equipped with large stocks of antimalaria drugs. But the U.N.'s Irish doctors found the Belgians had made no attempt to control the spread of malaria by clearing swamps...
...words gained special force last week in the news from Cuba itself. In Santiago, Antonio Zarba, 28, of Somerville, Mass., and 20 Cubans captured after landing on the northeast coast of Oriente province (see map) went on trial before an army tribunal. The next morning Zarba and seven men were dead, gunned down on an army rifle range near San Juan Hill. The remaining 13 drew prison terms up to 30 years. In Santa Clara another 200 rebels, rounded up in the Sierra Escambray, got an equally swift trial: less than five minutes per man. Verdicts: death for five, jail...
...scientists doubted last week that man at last was nearly ready to launch himself boldly and bodily into space. When, a fortnight ago, the U.S.S.R.'s 10,143-lb. "flying zoo" floated gently to a landing before the startled eyes of peasants on a collective farm northeast of the Caspian Sea, Russia demonstrated unquestionably that it has mastered the techniques necessary to rocket a man into orbit around the earth and bring him back alive...
...from the forecast of a good run by Dr. William F. Royce. director of the University of Washington's Fisheries Research Institute. Royce keeps tab on the number of young salmon moving down the rivers and into the sea and watches the results of test catches throughout the northeast Pacific. Historically, Bristol Bay salmon runs have followed a consistent cycle,* been smallest in years ending with 0 and 5. But Royce thought this was accidental, based his forecast for a good 1960 run on the scientific grounds of heavy catches in the ocean feeding areas and added...