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...dance steps-the "round dance," conducted without posterial shimmying, and the "sickle dance." a semicircular pattern accompanied by a slightly wagging rear end-that locate the pollen. Moreover, he added, when an individually marked bee of a primitive species was introduced into the hive of an Apis mellifera, the breakdown of communication was almost complete...
...breakdown of 1960 census figures shows that only 52% of the country's 18.9 million Negroes still live in the eleven states of the old Confederacy-compared with 60% in 1950 and 81% in 1910. In the midst of a general population increase and an increase of the Negro segment of the population from 10% to 10.5%, many Southern states showed only slight increases in Negro population. Arkansas and Mississippi had decreases...
When Brazilian representatives finally came out from Recife, Galváo's mind was made up for him. The long-patient 607 passengers on the Santa Maria shouted that they had had enough of pointless wandering, short rations, and the sweltering discomfort caused by the breakdown of the ship's air conditioning. The docile 360-man crew - only five of whom had deserted to the rebels-grew mutinous at the thought of putting to sea again under Galváo. During the scuffling argument, someone was pushed through a glass door in the lounge. Three crew members jumped...
...count with lima beans"), Brooke bounced back and forth between school and private tutors. After her divorce from Hayward, Margaret Sullavan moved to Connecticut, and Brooke went to a school unused to the Hollywood breed. Within six months after her arrival, Brooke recalls proudly, one teacher had a nervous breakdown. A little later Brooke was expelled from the Girl Scouts. Meanwhile, Mommy married Kenneth Wagg, then a director of Horlick's Malted Milk, and, insists Brooke, "we had nothing but malted milk in our pantry. I was even sent out on my bicycle to peddle the new products...
Paradoxically, only a few hundred miles to the northwest, the Congo's lush Equator and Leopoldville provinces had bananas, nuts and palm oil aplenty. But the transport breakdown and regional feuding kept normal trading at a standstill. Only hope lies in the crash feeding programs undertaken by the United Nations, whose officials estimate that a minimum of 120 tons of food must be distributed daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations...