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...Wodehouse once confided that his life has been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...
...Latin American nations, Mexico has waved the magic wand of land reform longest. Before the 1910 revolution, 97% of Mexico's farm land was held by 836 owners. Today 65% of the old haciendas have been divided into cooperatives, the rest given to small farmers. But now even in well-reformed Mexico, the need to feed a suddenly ballooning population grows daily-along with a peasant land hunger fanned by the propaganda of Fidel Castro...
...caucus his feelings about Britain's deepening economic crisis. To the average Briton in pub and park, basking in the summer sun, there were few signs of anything even to worry about, let alone fear. Wage earners were enjoying record employment; their shopping mums were still savoring the longest stretch of prosperity since the war. Labor leader after labor leader has gone on record for another round of wage increases this summer. On the surface, everything seemed tickety-boo, as vacationers crowded the beaches from Brighton to Belfast...
Furtado's troubled realm spreads over 680,000 sq. mi. of stony, eroded land alternately scourged by drought and swamped by flood. The rains are intermittent to the point where the Jaguaribe River, one of the region's most important, is known as the "world's longest dry river." Along the coast, the old landowning families employ sharecroppers to raise cane, corn and cotton on relatively productive land, keep their workers bound by insuring that they are forever in debt to the plantation store. In the dry inland area, more than half of the 26 million people...
...celebrate the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Pope John XXIII issued his own social encyclical, a message firmly oriented toward the new problems of the mid-20th century. Titled Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) and addressed broadly to "all Christians," it is 25,000 words long-probably the longest encyclical in history-and ranges farther and wider than either of its two predecessors. It is also more polished; John and his advisers have been tinkering with it for many months, and its publication was reportedly delayed several times for last-minute changes...