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...steaming, lush thicket the size of New Mexico. Although much of Ivory Coast (pop. 3,500,000) consists of juju and squalid villages, it is moving ahead at a breathtaking pace. Its harbor at Abidjan, the capital, handles the world's third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices), and towering construction cranes cut the skyline as sleek little skyscrapers of reinforced concrete and glass-all air-conditioned...
Along the 18-mile route to Hangar S, cheering crowds lined the highway. Welcoming signs and banners decked the motels of Cocoa Beach. One banner read simply: WELCOME TO EARTH. Riding on the back of a white convertible, Glenn held Annie Glenn tightly with his right arm. At one point, Lyndon Johnson halted the motorcade to greet a small boy wearing a space helmet. Immediately the Glenn car was engulfed in well-wishers...
...Blade. In fact, Hershey does play around some with the size of the bar, changing it to counter the wildly gyrating world cocoa market. Since World War II, as cocoa prices have ranged from 8? to 74? a pound, Hershey's nickel bar has varied in weight between a full ounce and seven-eighths of an ounce, and company executives have learned to swallow such gibes as "Hershey is packaging a nice razor blade now." Recently, when cocoa prices tumbled below 30?, the bar was raised back to a full ounce. Hershey jiggers with weight instead of price because...
...Zealand has promised to bulwark Western Samoa's copra, cocoa and banana economy for three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...