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Largely because so much of Latin America is mountainous, arid or tropical, less than 5% (v. 16% in the U.S.) of its more than 7,700,000 sq. mi. of land is under cultivation. Experts also cite antique farming methods. In Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized...
...civil rights revolution and the practical results of nonviolent protest as applied to that Gandhian principle by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He has a rather irritating habit of claiming a monopoly on humanitarianism. In justifying civil disobedience or downright defiance of national law, he is quick to cite the Nuremberg trials, which, he insists, made it a matter of international law that the individual cannot be excused for crimes committed by government order; thus cooperating with the U.S. Government in its participation in the Viet Nam war makes a soldier criminally responsible...
Anyway, who are reporters to complain about L.B.J.? "He has no peer as an editor," declared Moyers, who discovered in his boss a talent that even Presidential Aide Jack Valenti did not cite in his famous catalogue of L.B.J.'s virtues. "He's a very demanding and precise editor. He has the ability to reduce ten pages...
...most ambitious new project is the privately owned, government-backed new Cite Internationale des Arts, a $4,000,000 studio project on the Right Bank that will eventually provide 300 air-conditioned ateliers for artists of all sorts. Ceilings are low, but musicians' quarters come equipped with upright pianos, painters' rooms are furnished with easels, floors are sculptor-proof. Under construction are a library, bar, restaurant, auditorium and exposition hall. Rent is only $55 a month. But foreign governments or corporations must lay out $16,000 per studio, reserving the right to name their resident artists. Whether such...
Later, when Morgenthau began to cite foreign magazine articles (from France's L'Express and Britain's Economist) and figures on South Vietnamese desertion rates, Bundy, his voice edged with sarcasm, cut him short. "I'll simply have to break in, if I may, Mr. Sevareid, and say that I think Professor Morgenthau is wrong on his facts as to the desertion rates, wrong in his summary of the Express articles, wrong in his view of what the Economist says, and, I'm sorry to say, giving vent to his congenital pessimism." As an example...