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...same in all the countries involved: moribund economies, vast numbers of unemployed, strong and hostile labor unions. In Dahomey (pop. 2,200,000), the situation is aggravated by the fact that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that "brains are our biggest export"; now it has an increasingly serious white-collar unemployment problem, for newly independent West African nations train their own government officials. The Dahomey rioters also denounced President Maga's "squander-mania," notably the magnificent palace he built himself...
...weeks after President Kennedy gave U.S. traders the go-ahead on grain sales to Communist countries, the Commerce Department authorized the export of 2,600,000 bushels of corn to Hungary. The first sales, involving Minneapolis' Cargill Inc. and Manhattan's Continental Grain Co., amounted to $4,306,860-just a few kernels compared with the $250 million feast that is anticipated when the Communists start buying wheat...
...prop pilots sometimes take a whiff of oxygen during stopovers. Yet 4,000,000 people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony soil...
...Export trade yielded a $5,000,000 surplus in 1962, and banks bulge with $737 million in dollar reserves, highest in Latin America...
...most European nations, secrecy or carelessness makes for some misdirection in both state-subsidized and private research. Britain suffers particularly from a lack of priorities: its aircraft industry, which accounts for 4% of exports, reaps 38% of all research and development funds; but the machinery industry, which rings up 24% of all export sales, gets only 17% of the funds. "The present international research situation," remarks London's Financial Times, "is woefully inefficient and even bewildering...