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...shillings for the 21-mile drive from Kampala to Entebbe airport, ten times the fare a year ago. Clerks at government-controlled stores routinely consign salt, sugar and other commodities to the black market, where they sell for many times the official price. Coffee, Uganda's biggest cash crop, is smuggled into neighboring Burundi, which last year exported more than twice the quantity of coffee beans it harvested in its own fields. Says a Ugandan clergyman: "I don't know if our people will ever be honest again...
...always agreed with the faction of coaches who ahead of their time pointed out that 95 per cent of the battle was forcing young swimmers to believe in themselves and the training methods employed," Rose said. "Today's crop of top performers have an admirable devotion to training. I don't know if I could maintain a similar intensity if I had to do it all over again...
Oyakawa's present crop of Highlanders includes one of Ohio's most dynamic brother acts, Mark and Greg Rhodenbaugh. Mark, a sophomore, is already ranked number one in the state for the 200-yd. individual medley...
...England, yet mounds of it down in Dixie. Norfolk, Va., accumulated twice as much snow as Burlington, Vt, or Portland, Me., and about one-third more than Chicago. Florida too was taking its licks. In early March, temperatures plummeted below freezing, putting a squeeze on the citrus crop, and tornadoes cut across the southeast part of the state. Up North folks were trying to decide whether to pack away mufflers and mittens after spring-in-December readings of 16° C (60° F). The most startling weather occurred in California, where downpours of almost biblical proportions caused floods...
...bigger; water-borne tomatoes, for instance, may be 20% larger than earth-borne ones. The vegetables also mature much faster. The Lincoln Park Zoo maintains continuous production of fresh barley grass for the animals by "planting" two 50-lb. bags or so of seed every day; each new crop of grass is ready for harvesting in a week, compared with the six to eight weeks required for soil-grown barley...