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...third of Canada's Indians, the bush tribes in the north, are nomadic and primitive, their children (10,000 of them) unschooled. The remaining two-thirds live on reservations, are divided roughly into the poor and backward in the northern half of the provinces and the progressive bands who live farther south. Changing the way of life of the Indians on the 2,250 reservations scattered across Canada will be at best a slow job. Even the rich Indian likes the security of the reservation, often returns to it in old age, wants to be buried in its cemetery...
...Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with...
Forward or backward, everyone admitted that the burro had come a long way since Friar Juan Zumárraga (who converted the Aztecs to Christianity) brought the first pair from Spain 400 years ago. At the start, the burro served as replacement for the Indian runners who daily brought fresh fish from the coast to the rulers in Mexico City. Later, it carried the silver & gold of Mexico's mines. Now, 1,325,000-strong, Mexico's burro force still brings huge loads of charcoal down from the hills, jugs of pulque from farms to railheads, drags great...
...supply and would not be crippled. Then he used the borrowed segment to make a new channel connecting the aorta, the body's main artery, with the coronary sinus, the heart's main vein. He thus reversed the normal course of the blood and made it flow backward.. In effect, he turned a vein into an artery; the heart's capillaries got a new supply of oxygenated blood fresh from the lungs (revascularization). The patient was "terminal" (in doctors' jargon, would have died anyway), but showed enough temporary improvement before he died to make...
...Future? The Sinarquistas do best where the campesinos are backward and land-poor. Along the coasts, where people have more modern ideas and organization, they find the going tougher. But authoritative Mexican sources today give them half a million followers, 135,000 votes. Along with the more sophisticated, city-educated Acción Nacional, they add up to a potent conservative force. If the official P.R.I, should ever lose its grip, they might well rule Mexico...