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None of the seven acacia trees in the front yard of Sam Morse's home in La Feria, Texas, seem different from any of the others-or from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But to thousands of Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local...
...beckons both sexes, all ages from eight to 80, involves grammar school children on all continents, entices the octogenarians of the Himalayas, delights beach bathers throughout the world, has become a varsity sport in the armed services, and in 1964 became an official Olympic sport. The news media thrive on the spectator interests in the sports world, but it is the doer rather than the watcher who is the real sportsman...
Belaúnde has also resisted political pressures to nationalize the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), has created a climate that makes investment thrive. Along the new highways around Lima, small but modern plants are producing everything from TV sets to tobacco products. Cashing in on consumer prosperity, Sears, Roebuck will soon open its third store in Lima, and has plans for two more next year. Until March 1965, Peru imported all its autos; it now has five assembly plants, will get eight more from French, German, Swedish and Japanese automakers next year. Says General Motors...
...British thrive on adversity, then the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd., the grand old lady of transatlantic travel, should thrive. With unusual candor, Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group since November, recently stated the dimensions of adversity. Passenger operations have lost $40 mil lion in the past five years. Cargo ship ments and other sources of revenue turned the loss into a slight profit, but, said Sir Basil, Cunard has only been kept going by the sale of investments and property and by tax recoveries...
...individual research projects, on the other hand, will probably thrive. Most of the researchers are eager to win the co-operation of local school systems and to work in them. Although the Shadow Faculty has shifted its theoretical model from the Crazy School to the Instant School to the Tri-School, the individual research projects have survived and have developed continuities of their...