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Luckily for Spain, its development push coincided with a vast surge in the living standards of the rest of Western Europe. Hordes of Europeans with hard money in their pockets began pouring southward across the Pyrenees, lured by cheap prices, fiestas and bullfighting, by clear skies and endless beaches, by the ancient exotic attraction of a semi-Arab land that had dropped out of Europe with the Spanish Armada...
...next group went to Rome (seven hours' difference). The same tests were performed, and always there was an accompanying psychologist checking reaction times, decision times, concentration and attention capacities-and demanding that the scientists score themselves on a subjective check-off list. A third, 5,000-mile flight southward from Washington, D.C., to Santiago, Chile, which is only an hour off E.S.T., produced negligible changes...
...this is not enough. With independent black nations swarming into the U.N. and the Commonwealth, and the possibility of racial unrest spreading southward across the Zambezi, Rhodesia's whites have become increasingly militant. They are concerned that some time or other, Britain will make them live up to their colonial constitution-which, in theory at least, guarantees eventual African majority rule. Their new militancy is personified by Prime Minister Ian Smith, who came to power 18 months ago on a platform of "no African rule in my lifetime." Ever since, he has claimed that to protect this principle Rhodesia...
...winds often hit 40 knots or more. Complicating matters is the mast-snapping pampeiro, a westerly-land wind that frequently howls off the pampas at even greater force-only to die in a sudden, glassy calm. The Brazilian Curfent-the backwash of the Gulf Stream-is supposed to flow southward at two or three knots. But it weaves like a snake and sometimes dies like the wind...
...much for the Northwest Passage. Southward the way was barred by Spain, but the greedy "marchant adventurers" heard wondrous travelers' tales. One story, no doubt brought back by an ancestor of Ian Fleming, gave it out that "certaine servants of the emperor having prepared gold into fine powder blow it thorow hollow canes upon their naked bodies, untill they be al shining from the foote to the head...