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...Pearl River estuary, and the oldtime speculator who ran the blockades with mixed cargoes has disappeared. The Communists ask for and get only strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through Lap Sap Mei now travels about one-third of all shipping...
Expensive Trade. Lap Sap Mei and Macao are an enticement to the thousands of desperately poor junk people in Hong Kong who are ready to risk their lives to earn a few hundred dollars running contraband. Under U.N. pressure, British authorities have stepped up their efforts to enforce the embargo...
...forest Indians, remained human. Fawcett came to love their primeval sweetness and wisdom. They track their game by scent. Fawcett recorded, as an animal does, and call it to be killed with strange, alluring cries that the creature cannot resist. They fish by lacing the water with a caustic sap called solimán, that stuns the fish but does not poison their flesh. Fawcett also solemnly accepted the story that the Indians know of a plant whose juices dissolve metal, and even make stone soft and workable...
When the snow is melting and the sap is running in the maple trees, town-meeting time comes to New England. Gone are the uncomplicated days when every municipal decision, big or little, was threshed out at weekly meetings; but most towns of less than 5,000 population (and some larger towns, too) still hold yearly or twice-yearly meetings at which the citizens elect local officials, vote appropriations and taxes, and turn a watchful eye-and often a sharp tongue-on the town administration's performance. Some meetings held this month...
Snow still lay in the Rockies, New England, and a tier of states across the northern border. But sap was rising early to branch and bud; despite flurries of wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...