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Bird talked, smiled and handclasped their way through the Nebraska-sized country. They surprised everybody by getting up at 4:30 one morning and driving out of Dakar into the countryside. At the fishing town of Kayar, where the per capita income is $100, the Vice President held out hope: "The rural per capita income of Texas was only $180 in 1930, and today it is $1,800." Cried Lady Bird, catching sight of baskets piled high with peanuts: "Why it's just like Texas...
...million in U.S. aid each year, the South is a hard-working country of paddyfields, coconut groves, rubber plantations and flourishing light industry. South Viet Nam exported 350,-ooo tons of rice last year, seven times the 1957 figure, and currency reserves swelled to a tidy $218 million. Per capita income has jumped 20% in five years, at $120 a year is one of the highest in Asia...
...million). The Suez Canal is doing better business than ever: revenues are up $50 million over 1955 to some $150 million. Even so, in a nation whose population has grown by 3,500,000 since Nasser came to power, the birth rate wipes out economic gains: the per capita income remains about $100 a year-one of the world's lowest-and there has been an actual fall in the standard of living. But abroad, in the "three circles" Nasser has marked out as his self-appointed spheres of destiny, triumph eludes him. The circles: 1) the Arab world...
...deeply committed in Laos, where it has spent $310 million in the past six years. This is $26 for every Laotian every year, or almost half the per capita income. A "retired" West Point brigadier, Andrew Jackson Boyle, directs the entire U.S. supply and training operation from headquarters in Vientiane-where the suburbia-like U.S. colony has taken on a stripped-for-action look since the evacuation of 200 dependents to Bangkok seven months ago. West Point's "retired" Major Eleazar Parmly does his best to help the government drive along Astrid Highway. In the hill country, Central Intelligence...
...King George V, who carted away the carcasses of 39 tigers, 18 rhinos and four bears-plus one unfortunate leopard, run over by the royal mail van. Last week another royal Briton, Queen Elizabeth II, flew into Katmandu from India, and for George's granddaughter, impoverished Nepal (per capita income estimated at $70 cash a year) planned the most elaborate one-day shikar in its history...