Word: surer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flags v. Fertilizers. Bolivia is still a cruel, almost medieval land locked in Andean poverty. On the 12,000-ft.-high Altiplano, where 75% of its 4,000,000 people live, Indian campesinos still consider white flags draped on their oxen a surer crop guarantee than fertilizer. Some 60% of the people speak only Indian languages, and per capita income is a pitiable $114. But under Paz Estenssoro, 56, Bolivia is gradually improving...
With the embattled wedding finally over and Irene formally ruled out of the line of succession by Parliament, attention turned to Beatrix, who at 26 is already surer of herself than Juliana ever was. Particularly close to her father, "Trix" shares his spontaneous enjoyment of life. Once, when christening a new ship, she drenched the assembled dignitaries with champagne, and her laughter at the sight was heard throughout the country on TV. Her only apparent major problem is getting married. The government would dearly like to break the habit of finding royal consorts among the Protestant German aristocracy. But suitable...
Nighttime Lesson. The jaguar, a wily, elusive beast that is vicious when cornered, is hunted either by day with dogs or by night with lights. Daredevil bushland residents, like Sarapiqui's Froylan Ponce, prefer night hunting because "it is surer-El Tigre moves at night." Others, like Enrique Martinez, a professional guide from San Jose, have learned a lesson or two. Two years ago Martinez was leading a hunting party that jumped a 250-lb. jaguar at night. He trained his coal miner's head lamp on the animal while one of the hunters took aim and fired...
Gary Berger's fifteen-piece big band, which played first, showed how much it has improved. At last year's Quincy-Holmes jazz concert, the Berger band was hesitant and restrained. Now its voice no longer cracks, and its sound is bigger, smoother and surer. Also, the band has developed a group of soloists who can play in front of a big ensemble and still not sound thin and tremulous. Sam Saltostall's humorous trombone and the vigorous saxophones of Watanabe and Errol Burke provided some fine solo work...
...University of Oklahoma,who decided that the life of the stage was more interesting than cracking oil. Housed in an old warehouse, the Mummers have set some sort of record by being solvent from the start, especially since they produce Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett as well as surer things like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which closed a successful run last week. "A successful resident theater," says the Ford Foundation, "appears to be dependent upon a single driving, talented director or producer determined to have his own theater company and to have it in a particular place." Ford...