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Burly and barrel-chested, with massive thighs and 16½-in. calves, New Zealand's Peter Snell, 23, is a country boy who dotes on sweets (honey, barley sugar). Unknown when he turned up at the 1960 Olympics, Snell upset Belgium's Roger Moens in the 800-meter run-and set an Olympic record in the process. Ever since, he has trained steadily, runs 100 miles a week over pock-marked mountain trails. Now, when he chooses to run on a track, Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in the world. Fortnight ago at Wanganui...
Quite a While. For many farmers, increased costs caused losses. Merced County, Calif., growers harvested a poor barley crop because they lacked water; with the water table dropping, some farmers had to pay $15 a foot to deepen wells. Michigan Dairy Farmer Lloyd Smith reckoned the cost of a new tractor at $6,000 compared with $3,000 ten years ago, also paid taxes of $964 as against $276 when he bought his 345-acre farm nine years ago. Thus, in many U.S. areas, bankers and merchants reported increases in credit buying and loan extensions by farmers. Said Tractor Dealer...
...physician, Russell issued a gloomy statement: "I am to be silenced for a time, perhaps forever, for who can tell how soon the great massacre will take place?" Fellow Prisoner Arnold Wesker, one of Britain's more promising and depressing new playwrights (Roots, Chicken Soup with Barley), was less pessimistic. Sentenced to one month, Wesker asked for and received pencils, paper and a partly finished manuscript. His request for a typewriter and secretary as well was turned down...
...North Korean refugees, the population of 14,000 on the islands was so near starvation that some were surviving by eating seaweed and small crabs. Infant mortality was 40%. Not long after he arrived, Moffett saw islanders bury in the beach 53 children who had died of diphtheria. Rice, barley, cabbage and sweet potatoes could be grown only four months a year. For the remaining eight months, the islands depended on the catch brought back by 23 fishing boats...
...China diplomatically, but it knows a good customer when it sees one. Last week Canada's Minister of Agriculture Alvin Hamilton announced the biggest one-shot grain sale in Canadian history: over the next 2½ years, Communist China will buy 233.4 million bu. of wheat and barley worth $362 million. The sale brought famine-suffering Red China from nowhere to second place (barely behind Britain) among Canada's grain customers...