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From the high green Andean plateau to the water-splashed lowlands, oratory was stilled. A week before election day, dignified, democratic Colombia, third most populous of the South American republics, wound up a garrulous campaign. Next Sunday, May 5, some 1,500,000 Colombian males would vote for a new President...
...Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
...Government, with or without advice, with good judgment or bad, is bound to be the most potent single factor in making or breaking the U.S. economy. Its tax methods and spending alone (especially if the postwar budget stays on the $25 billion plateau which Harry Truman has suggested) will shape the whole course of U.S. business and society...
Throat and Backbone. Turkey was defiant. Recalling earlier Russian demands in Armenia and at the Dardanelles, General Kiazim Kara Bekir said Turks would fight for every inch. He added: "The world must know that the Straits form the throat of the Turkish nation and the Kars Plateau its backbone." The Turkish National Assembly at once voted his army more funds...
...Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...