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...background is the southwestern American desert and a training base for fighter pilots and gunners. In the foreground is a section of the base hospital called Ward 7, known to the top brass as Sunnybrook Farm and to its inmates as Psycho Beach. There Captain Josiah J. Newman, M.D., fights his war against "everything from tics to combat fatigue," depending chiefly on his own central intelligence and flak-juice (Pentothal Sodium) as his principal weapons...
Among the unnumbered Americans who suffered last week from sniffles and fevers caused by a variety of viruses, tens of thousands had influenza. The outbreaks skipped across the map from Florida to Missouri and Illinois, over the Continental Divide to the southwestern mountain states, and up the Pacific Coast to remote island villages in Alaska...
Some 22,000 years ago, in southwestern France, a band of Stone Age hunters camped the year round beneath a rocky overhang while hunting the locally migrating herds of reindeer on which their lives depended. They cooked the reindeer meat over hearths scooped from the ground; made clothes and leanto shelters from the skins; and from the bones and antlers cut out spear points, awls, and beads...
...China. For what is at issue is not the submission of Albania to Khrushchev but that of Peking. For the time being, Hoxha continued to denounce Khrushchev as a traitor to Marxism, while Red China's Peking Review proclaimed: "Albania will always stand like a giant holding the southwestern outpost of the Socialist camp...
Financing for Project Jarba, the area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project...