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...thin, cold air of the Andean altiplano, Bolivia's two-year-old democracy fought for breath to live. President Enrique Hertzog, a doctor experienced in pulmonary problems, had pulled his patient through five states of siege. Last week a fresh complication set in. The doctor himself, worn out and suffering from kidney and heart trouble, took a leave of absence...
...fighters and can hold its advantage for a while. Though much slower (about 400 m.p.h. in emergencies) than fighters, the 6-36 flies at an altitude where jet engines lose much of their power. Further, the wide turning radius (five to ten miles) of a fast fighter in the thin upper air makes it hard for it to maneuver into position to attack the 6-36, which is fitted out with massive firepower for defense...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...
...composition, Villon's landscapes were as cubist as ever. He had broken the trees, rivers, mountains and towns of southern France into thin flakes and shavings of color, and though he obeyed the laws of perspective in applying his painted patchwork to canvas, he used different perspectives for each patch. As a result, his pictures looked rather like panoramas painted into the pleats of an accordion. Even his self-portrait appeared to have been painted on creased and crumpled paper: the self-possessed face was only half there...
Some cattlemen are attacking coyotes too; they claim that coyotes are killing calves at a rate that has become serious. The highly bred modern cow cannot defend her calf as the thin, stringy and wild range cows once...