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Rolling over 700 square miles in southwestern Tennessee, Fayette County is a Black-belt area where cotton is king, the white man is prince, and Negro sharecroppers for years have easy credit and good will-so long as they keep out of trouble. After Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1957, Fayette County Negroes began to line up in increasing numbers to register as voters. The whites cared less about the law than the fact that in Fayette County, Negroes outnumber whites...
...million above estimates. Principal factors were relentless pressure on all fronts against federal spending-16 of the 22 major Government agencies spent less than anticipated-and some luck down on the farm. Bad weather at home and good demand from abroad made for lighter wheat crops and heavier cotton exports, helped cut Department of Agriculture outlays by $277 million...
...hour chosen by astrologers as auspicious, Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke last week swore in history's first female Prime Minister of an independent country. Coolly dignified in a plain white cotton sari, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 44, stepped to the balcony to give a pressed-palm salute to the crowd below, and then, predictably, burst into tears. That was just how she had won last week's election...
...headed by Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Lu Hsu-chang, closed a deal with National Bank President Ernesto ("Che"') Guevara to buy 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar each year for five years. A fifth of the payment is to be convertible sterling and the rest vegetable oil, rice, cotton, manufactured goods and "entire factories." In Moscow...
When the crop is big enough, a sample is put into a cotton-stoppered vial inside a bigger vial, and frozen solid. When the air is pumped out of the vial, the frozen water departs as vapor, leaving a dry residue that looks like an aspirin tablet and contains perhaps 1,000,000 deeply sleeping germs. Some germs will live for 20 years in this state, and can be awakened by adding nutrient. Thus encouraged, they multiply-and then can be put back to sleep again for another 20 years...