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...life. The Cabinet was shaken up, army officers were ordered to keep out of politics, and prices of rice, sugar, milk and meat were slashed as much as 30%. Even a few bits and pieces of the billion-dollar Trujillo fortune, such as the family's coffee and cocoa monopolies, were returned to the people. Said one diplomat who a month ago had advocated OAS intervention: "I remain skeptical. But I'm very impressed with the gestures made. I now consider genuine reform a possibility...
Cape Canaveral's current firing schedule calls for launching a man into space on the target date of April 28. The seven Mercury astronauts, who until recently had visited the Cape only for launchings and special briefings, are now permanently billeted at Cocoa Beach's Holiday...
...Coffee, Cocoa & Rubber. With no royalties to pay and no leases, worldwide distribution networks, dividends or profit statements to worry about, Soyuzneftexport was able to move into the Swedish market with 1,500,000 tons (one-seventh of Sweden's imports) in 1959 simply by knocking 22% off the price that Western suppliers were charging. In Brazil, there was hardly a discount at all in Russia's big contract last year; there the attraction was that Soyuzneftexport accepted Brazilian coffee and cocoa beans in a straight barter deal, whereas the "majors" demanded hard currencies...
...African society to the modern world, Larry , a Nigerian delegate to the Nations, spoke of the economic development of Nigeria as "the marriage the existing Nigerian economy to industry." Nigerians must import such modities as Ovaltine, he said, despite fact that they are the world's second producers of cocoa, all because cannot process their existing raw materials...
...Just behind the beach, guarded by a great green mangrove wall, lie sweltering swamps-and the mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara's edge, where by day nomadic cattle herders...