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...have to stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars, but it would undoubtedly place a heavy strain on the Canadian confederation, especially on the Western Prairies and the Maritime Provinces, where the facts of geography exert an extra pull toward trade with...
Meanwhile, the novelist tells the stories of the Negroes whose lives are directly touched by this affair-the Rogers family, Ezekiel's secretary, Bessie Mathews, and her hard-working brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...
...tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
Mexico City newspapers awoke to the threat of a national disaster: Mexican agriculture faced a ruinous fruit-fly plague. Nearly 2,000,000 of the country's 16 million citrus trees were infested. U.S. citrus growers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, with 18,500,000 trees just 250 miles north of the infested area, screamed to federal and state' governments for a fast preventive...
...University of California (eight campuses, 10,000 acres, more than 43,000 students) is convinced that it isn't big enough. Last week, the Board of Regents announced that it would build a new $6,000,000 liberal arts college on one of its smaller campuses-the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside (900 acres), where now only a handful of graduate students in citriculture take up all the space. The new college will accommodate over 1,000 students. That, said the regents, was just the first step in taking care of the state's growing college population-which...