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...increase in 1964, farmland prices across the nation jumped another 6% last year, according to the Agriculture Department. In many areas, the gain was even greater. In Iowa's corn belt and Florida's citrus area, land prices have climbed 10% in the past year. Crop land in Sedgwick County, Kans., now brings $400 an acre, 32% more than it did only two years...
...ugly question of rock 'n' roll, for example, crop up every once in a while, and it isn't totally solved by the more-relaxed-than-usual reading period orgies. The issue has repercussions both inside and outside the studio. Outside, it means that anyone interested in rock simply has no WHRB members don't find this disturbing in the least. "I'm not especially concerned--I'd rather do a good job than have University listeners," says Webb. Others do care--slightly. But there is no significant "rock bloc" as there are folk, jazz, or CM (classical) blocs...
...this unorthodox manner, Cubans last week got the bad news. At 5,000,000 tons, this year's sugar-cane harvest, on which Cuba depends almost exclusively for income, will be a full 1,000,000 tons under last year's crop and 1,500,000 tons less than Castro's earlier forecasts. Right now, Cuba can afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled...
When the British declared their array of embargoes against rebellious Rhodesia, the moment of truth that would bring down Ian Smith's white regime was expected to arrive when the tobacco crop came in-and the nation's tobacco farmers would find themselves unable to sell it. Smith had other ideas, however, and they emerged last week when the annual five-month tobacco auction opened in Salisbury...
...There was no way to tell how the sales were going. But Salisbury hotels were filled with buyers from all over Western Europe and even Asia. In any case, tobacco farmers could not lose very much, for the government had guaranteed purchase of this year's entire crop if necessary, at prices only slightly lower than last year's. To the chagrin of the British, economic disaster seemed as far away for the Smith government as ever...