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...other workers planted experimental fields containing thousands more for harvest and research next year. Some day soon the scientists of Tibaitata Experiment Station hope to find the strains that best combine yield, taste, nutritional quality, disease and insect resistance. When they do, one of a dozen programs to help Colombian agriculture will have paid...
...Champagne. There was no inaugural ball, not even a modest champagne reception. It was, said Lleras, a simple ceremony "to set an example of austerity." But foreign visitors (including a six-man U.S. delegation), well-braided generals and curbside crowds turned out to honor the architect of the new Colombian ideal of the "National Front...
Huge Debts. The President's other big problem is an economy dragged downward by the Rojas regime's extravagance and the estimated $70 million sag in coffee income this year. The junta made a start by imposing what Colombian businessmen call "organized recession," including severe import restrictions on everything from toothpaste to typewriters. The cost of living is still climbing at a rate of 20% a year, and Lleras warns that if coffee prices are not stabilized, "this country may explode...
...around them were their "prospecting boys," African helpers trained to look for unusual rock outcrops. As they sat, recalls Contat, "an African named Chiwaro came in with a rock sample. He didn't think much of it, but it had what Colombian miners call morralla [the characteristic mineral in which emeralds are embedded]. The morralla may open into nothing; but it may also open into clusters of emeralds...
...minutes, continued over a filet mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras Camargo is to be inaugurated Aug. 7. Still in the discussion stage: a meeting of chiefs of state after the foreign ministers' conference...