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...their common stock: two cobras, two boa constrictors, one anaconda, two eagles, one hawk, four Gila monsters, one owl, five donkeys, two chimpanzees, two African lions, two mountain lions, two lynxes, three raccoons, one coyote, one porcupine, one skunk, one South African rattlesnake, and an unspecified number of Southwestern rattlesnakes...
...French frontiers, customs officers waved motorists past without checking passports or luggage. In the coal fields, 173,000 miners downed tools. Southwestern winegrowers seized the opportunity to demonstrate against the government's refusal to buy up surplus wine. Led by their local mayors, 100,000 farmers blocked the highways with wine barrels, while priests tolled the church bells in ecclesiastical approval. There had been nothing quite like it since the Popular Front days...
Young Woodin (grandson of William H. Woodin, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Secretary of the Treasury) is assistant director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Trailside Museum. His purpose: to explore the intimate lives of all Southwestern reptiles, a subject not well known. Since reptiles are "coldblooded" (i.e., have no built-in thermostats as mammals do), they must adjust their activities to the temperature around them. In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration. So Woodin believes that an important step toward understanding...
...southwestern plains of the U.S., weather as hot and dry as a kitchen stove lid is an accepted part of life. West Texans like to say that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...
...Niort (pop. 29,068) in southwestern France, Caroline Chérie ran into the Abbé Francis Ferrier. Rallying parents' associations, parochial-school pupils, and politicians, the abbe demanded that Mayor Felix Lelant prevent the film from being shown. The mayor thought hard, decided that he might prohibit the film on the grounds that it was a "provocation to riot," and got the municipal council so to rule. That night pro-Carolinians chalked the walls of Niort with the slogan: "Liberate Caroline." The anti-Carolinians retaliated with: "Caroline go Home...