Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported in your Feb. 27 issue, Dr. Dick Read has apparently discovered something more than a tribe with beautiful vomen using a mysterious contraceptive [to limit themselves to bearing one child apiece]. The tribe is also vanishing, or cheating...
...does this tribe maintain its population? If this law has been in force for a few generations, it should be extinct...
...This wonderful tribe," says Author Read, "is gradually growing smaller and smaller and is only a shadow of its former majestic self...
...mystery on which Dr. Dick Read stumbled has him baffled. In a tribe whose women are famed for their beauty, the chiefs have forbidden the women to bear more than one child each. To obey, they take an herb preparation by mouth every six or eight months. What the magic contraceptive component is, no white man knows...
...dolphin give the cue, the clipper makes its play. The surface of the school, a shimmer of young fish, breaks open like taut skin as the ancients of the tribe come hurtling up to take the bait. The men in the scuppers see them coming and join forces for the battle-three poles now are roped to the same hook, and still the big backs bow and the heavy arms knot as 300-lb. tuna fly into the back troughs with each heave...