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...settlers have poured into the area to tap Brazil's immense riches. Every day long lines of trucks rumble north and south carrying out lumber, rubber and vegetable oil. New farmlands produce beans, rice, corn and fruit to feed Brazil's exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc, copper, gold, diamonds and quartz...
...play the game." Most newsmen appreciated his dilemma, but some took pleasure in needling him mercilessly about it. They had reason to do so, for they have never quite forgiven Arthur for writing in Foreign Affairs two years ago, that newspaper and magazine stories "are sometimes worse than useless when they purport to give the inside history of decisions; their relation to reality is often considerably less than the shadows in Plato's cave." So often did he, as an insider, come upon distorted accounts, he added, that it was impossible "for me to take the testimony of journalism...
...perch above the heat and passion of life. Thucydides served as a general during the Peloponnesian War. Edward Gibbon, a soldier in his youth, found the experience valuable when he wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "The captain of Hampshire Grenadiers," Gibbon insisted, "was not useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Indeed, says Schlesinger, "until the last half of the 19th century, the great historians were, in one way or another, captains of Hampshire Grenadiers. Macaulay, Bancroft, Guizot, Carlyle, Parkman, Henry Adams-all were men for whom the history they wrote was a derivation from...
...repression were no more or less chilling than all the others coming out of Cuba. What was interesting was the talk of growing shortages, as Castro's grey little island sinks deeper into economic chaos. "Anything that breaks remains broken," said a Havana clinic worker. "Anything that becomes useless remains useless." Supplies of clothing, shoes, medicine, meat are diminishing. Even coffee is declining; production this year will be only 25,000 tons, nearly 40% less than the pre-Castro average. What there is fetches a handsome price on a black market that is growing so big that Castro himself...
Going into the 500, Army led by a score of 40 to 30. Since a final relay victory would be useless without five points in the freestyle, Coach Bill Brooks put sprint ace Bill Shrout and strongman Neville Hayes in the race...