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Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition. It was, in short, picturesque but a tough place for Welshmen. Seen in retrospect by Welsh Novelist Jones, it remains determinedly picturesque but a hazardous place for novelists...
Unlikely Proposition. These views, and others just as provocative, bloom in the barren soil of Boston, a city so unappreciative of common scolds that in the old days it put them in pillory. Many readers of the Boston Herald, where Frazier's column appears six times a week, write in to suggest that such punishment is much too good for the Herald's uncommon scold. George Frazier, 52, is possibly the most roundly despised man in Boston-and the most widely read...
...reports from the heart of the barren, remote land last week suggested that a Yemen guerrilla army of more than 30,000 fierce, leathery tribesmen at last was on the move against the rebels-and taking a deadly toll...
Though it is separated from Yemen by 1,000 miles of barren desert, Jordan has a major stake in the seesawing war. "Nasser is out to destroy everything." says King Hussein, 27-and Hussein ought to know: almost from the moment he was proclaimed King in 1952, assassins incited by Nasser propaganda have been gunning for him. In the decade since, Hussein has struggled manfully to develop his little land; today he happily supplies Yemen's royalists with money and munitions to stave off a Nasser victory that might sweep away the fruits of progress in his own country...
Along the ancient bed of a glacial lake, U.S. 89 runs eastward out of Great Falls, Mont., and climbs into the Little Belt Mountains. There, above the once prosperous coal-mining town of Belt (pop. 757), a plain link fence encloses two acres of barren land and Russian thistle, four watchful electronic sentinels, and a few drab slabs of concrete. Beneath that concrete is buried an Air Force Minuteman missile-one of the most efficient instruments of intercontinental destruction the U.S. possesses...