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...Congress to allot 48% of total federal revenues to "autonomous agencies" such as the Red Cross, universities, private schools and sports clubs. The government is moving ahead with a program to push roads into lush but unused lands near the coast, educating farmers from the Andean highlands to grow cotton, rice, sugar and coffee, and providing them with development credits...
...three were once run by Entrepre neur William L. Moody Jr., who before his death in 1954 had built up a $400 million empire in banking, insurance, real estate, cotton, oil, hotels and ranching. "My father told me never to dispose of these papers,'' said Mrs. Mary Moody Northen, but in a bitter, two-hour meeting, stockholders overrode her. Mrs. Hobby's winning bid was kept secret, and the philanthropic Moody Foundation, which supervised the transaction, would go no farther than to say that the underbidders did not include the Scripps-Howard or Newhouse chains. Said...
Although it specializes in ski wear and equipment, the store promises an extensive summer sportswear collection this year. There will be shifts of terry cloth, cotton, silk, and jersey including these of the Italian coutier Pucci based on wild Picasso silk screen prints. There will also be men's and women's sandals ($6 up) and bathing suits from Sweden and France...
...basic economic resource was the railroad. Competition from trucks has made short-haul, small-load freight uneconomic for railroads, and many small-town stops have been abandoned. The Central of Georgia used to stop at Coffee Springs, Ala., and the town made a living by ginning and shipping cotton. But the railroad ripped out the tracks that ran through Coffee Springs, and today weeds grow in what used to be busy streets. "We're going nowhere," says a longtime Coffee Springs resident. "There's nowhere we want to go." Similarly, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad drastically curtailed service...
...down in the land of cotton, two attractive Governors last week delivered their inaugural addresses and, in a pleasant departure from the past, they weren't just whistling Dixie...