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...John is a state senator. Their daughter, Mrs. Treva Turner Howell, continues the old family tradition of doing good for the poor while doing well politically-something the massive poverty program has made rather easy. She administers the local poverty effort, sowing federal largesse and reaping a bumper crop of votes for the county Democratic organization headed by her husband, Jeff Davis Howell...
...Oxford-educated Manley played a primary role in Jamaica's rise from a stagnant British Crown colony to political independence and economic wellbeing. He was among the first and foremost organizers of a campaign to attract both tourists and industry to bolster the island's historic one-crop sugar trade. The program was so successful that today Jamaica is one of the world's major producers of bauxite for aluminum and tourism is becoming a $100 million-a-year industry...
Washington fears that the U.S. will soon be forced to make further price cuts in order to hang on to its traditional 40% share of the shrinking world market for wheat. If so, the chief losers will be U.S. taxpayers because more farmers will elect to unload their crop at the domestic subsidized price and the Government will have to pay the cost of storage until the wheat can be sold. The problem is likely to prove persistent. U.S. farm experts figure that the world supply of wheat has grown so large that even a serious drought...
...analyze the current state of business from available statistics are something like the legendary three blind men who tried to find out what an elephant was like by feeling its trunk, legs and tail. The Government gathers some statistics in stupefying detail; many critics, for example, consider the myriad crop statistics published by the Agriculture Department to be a quixotic extravagance. On the other hand, some key figures that might disclose how much inflationary pressure remains in the economy are not collected at all; others are sketchy and still others unreliable. "We assume a lot of information is available that...
...most satisfying parts of our work," says Maria Luisa, "is simply putting our readers in touch with other people-so they can exchange ideas and even help solve a problem." She remembers a Hungarian agronomist who had read in TIME about a California farmer whose artichoke crop was being ruined by mice. We gave him the farmer's address, and perhaps, after all, he did have a better mousetrap...