Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They sure do. Piled in warehouses throughout Brazil are 52 million bags of coffee-nearly enough to meet world demand for a full year. Trouble is, 40-odd other countries are also growing-and stockpiling-coffee. Last week, faced with yet another surplus crop year, representatives of 67 nations, including all the major coffee producers and consumers, met at the U.N. in an effort to restore order to the glutted world coffee market...
...been British purchases of Australian wheat and wool. Now, with Britain dickering for membership in the Common Market and the whole system of Commonwealth tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest export market (after Great Britain, Japan...
This year Australia has a bumper wheat crop estimated at 300 million bu. ready for harvesting, and is eager to sell more to Peking. The Hong Kong business community is full of reports that the Australians will offer more liberal credit terms to the Chinese Reds in the hope of undercutting the Canadians, who last year sold $120 million worth of grain to Peking...
...tribe practices the cult of the severed head. Young boys entering warrior-hood spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their...
NIKOLAI PODGORNY, 59, another Ukrainian, 4½ years ago ousted an early Khrushchev favorite, hard-boiled Fellow Ukrainian Aleksei Kirichenko, as party boss in Khrushchev's former fiefdom. Early last year Khrushchev delivered a scorching assault against Podgorny for having blamed bad weather for poor corn yields ("The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest?"). But by the time of the next harvest, Podgorny could report better news. With a smile, he told Khrushchev at the October congress that the Ukraine had doubled its sale of grain to the state...