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...Like Cattle." The proud and handsome Caraja nation has dwindled in two centuries from 500,000 to 1,200, and its domain, which once stretched 870 miles from northern Mato Grosso to the sea, has shrunk to the shores of a jungle island. Of the Pau d'Arcos, some 3,000 strong at the beginning of the century, a lone survivor remains-an old woman wearing out her days as a stranger in another tribe. Many tribes, among them the Amoipiras and the Potiguaras, live only in the history books...
Under such pressure, South Korea's newspaper staffs have shrunk from a peak of 100,000 during Chang's regime to 15,000. Many reporters under 31 years of age have been fired on orders from the junta so that they can be drafted into the army and the National Construction Corps. Despite it all, few Koreans are sympathetic to the plight of the press. It has engineered its own ruin...
...abandoned. Said he: "It would be just as unfair to call today's business operation 'capitalism' as it would be to call squirrels capitalists because they hoard nuts for the winter . . . The word describes only a part of our industrial incentive system-a part that has shrunk to insignificance in modern years...
...plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...
...count themselves neutral in the cold war. Western Europe, with its thriving economies, has unmistakably opted for the U.S. way rather than the Russian way of organizing society and producing goods. In most of the free world, the popular appeal of Communism as an alternative way of life has shrunk to nearly zero, and once-strong Communist parties have dwindled to shrill slivers. U.S. styles of living have spread around the world; even behind the Iron Curtain, teen-agers imitate their U.S. counterparts in dress and musical tastes...