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Imelda joined him on the campaign; the two sang duets and applied her corn-padre family connections on his behalf. The Marcos-Macapagal encounter produced some of the fiercest infighting ever seen in a nation that averages 60 murders every election. Macapagal's supporters spread rumors that Imelda had posed in the nude for magazines and blue movies; Marcos accused Macapagal of everything from corruption to ineptitude. When the votes came in last November, Marcos had won by 660,000 votes, out of a total of 7 million...
Rugged IR-8. Marcos has taken the first steps toward defining and defeating these problems. His new Four-Year Plan, which won $21 million worth of support from Washington last month, envisions self-sufficiency in rice and corn production by 1969. His expedients: a combination of improved irrigation systems and more fertilizer plus such superior strains of rice as the rugged IR-8, developed by the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Oct. 7) at the rice institute at Los Ba?...
...with nine feet of annual rainfall and a sunny six-month growing season, the Ivory Coast ranks third among the world's coffee producers, fourth in cocoa. But aware of the dangers of a one-or two-crop economy, Houphouet-Boigny and Saller sponsored land conversion programs for corn, soybeans, peanuts and pineapple...
...barrier, but a Brazilian doctor says that his wife managed to spend $200 in a dress shop "on a total vocabulary of 'pink,' 'blue,' 'white,' 'my size' and 'how much.' " Other U.S. pluses, by consensus: ice cream, San Francisco, corn on the cob, roadside picnic spots, "houses that look like the ones in the movies," and the variety of the population-"white, yellow and every shade of black," an Italian visitor noted. Tops among minuses are rude customs officers. Others: slums, dismal trains, violence, plastic flowers, women in hair curlers...
...baby, and there's a new house "with a two-car garage, a screened back porch, two fireplaces, four bedrooms and a real red carpet in the living room. And I have my own farm, too, four acres of tobacco and six acres cleared for corn, soybeans and peanuts." That's not bad for a sharecropper's son, and Perry figures that it will take more than 20 wins to take care...