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...third of the best, white-owned farmland is up for sale, but there are few takers even at drastically reduced prices. Many farmers who refused to take huge losses simply arranged with neighbors to run their places, then loaded their furniture on trucks and headed for the coast, where boats carried them off to Australia...
Culver is a 1,400-acre complex of parapets and playing fields that looms out of monotonous farmland like a Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only...
...With Soviet technical aid, China for the first time started to manufacture trucks and locomotives, tractors and planes. Big industrial complexes sprang up at Paotow, Wuhan and Anshan; dams rose to harness the great rivers; some 50 million newly irrigated acres were added to the nation's farmland. Chinese products invaded foreign markets...
Today the community organized at Hancock, Mass., in 1790 is beginning a new phase of witness to the Shaker way. There are only 932 acres of pasture and farmland instead of some 5,000, and only 17 buildings instead of 34. And there are no Shakers at all. A nonprofit corporation made up largely of well-off summer residents of the Berkshires, titled Shaker Community, Inc., has opened Hancock Shaker Village to the public for seven days a week ($1 for adults, 50? for children), thus preserving the fossil of a unique movement in U.S. religious history...
...Money. Ayub has pushed through a land reform program, redistributing some 23% of Pakistani farmland to onetime tenant farmers. Karachi's teeming refugee slums have been razed; some 100,000 refugees from the bloody division of Pakistan and India were relocated in plain but clean modern colonies. No longer is "tea money" necessary to get in to see a government official. Ayub has made Pakistan's government the least corrupt of any nation on the Asian continent...