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...Behind the sandy dunes of the north are tiers of flat plains leading back to the highlands where 300,000 Moi hut dwellers search the thick forests for white elephants as good-luck charms. In the south are the hard-working Annamese peasants, squatting under conical hats of palm leaves in the brimming Mekong Delta marshes to plant the rice that is South Viet Nam's chief source of sustenance and a major export. The delta's deep black soil is some of the world's richest, could produce still more food if developed with roads, modern farming techniques...
...Canterbury has sat for his enthronement since 1205. Before speaking, Ramsey seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time to a flock that is noted in all Christendom for its indifference to the church...
...world's forests, Brazil exports $90 million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...
Angry Press. All week long, Dr. Janet Travell, the White House physician, smilingly dodged the press. While the President was in Palm Beach, Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher was asked if a consulting doctor had been called in, answered, "No." But word soon leaked out that Dr. Preston Wade, a New York surgeon, had indeed flown to Palm Beach to examine the President's back...
...pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used to lift the President, grim-faced and ignoring the photographers below, aboard his plane in Palm Beach, and a similar device lowered him to the ground in Washington. He canceled one scheduled speech, delivered a second -to the National Conference on International Economic and Social Development -seated in a chair. When callers came to the White House, the President talked to them lying down, or seated...