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...Plans. Jordan's economy is in a state of suspended animation. Tourism is dead; without the Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Jordan is lucky to attract a dozen tourists a week. The loss of the West Bank deprived the nation of a quarter of its farmland, more than half its production of vegetables, olives and fruit, 30% of its wheat, 48% of its industry and nearly half of its 2.1 million people, including many of its wealthiest taxpayers. Unemployment, swelled by the flood of refugees, has soared to 35% and is still climbing; factories, unable to sell their...
...size of those U.S. exports and the effect of a cutoff made up the ammunition hurled at the Senate last week by a platoon of Cabinet members sent up the Hill by President Johnson. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman pointed out that one acre of every four of U.S. farmland grows food for export, and exports provide work for one out of every eight U.S. farmers. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall argued that oil import quotas should be less rigid in order to give the Government flexibility in maintaining the national security. Rusk cited some U.S. annual exports-$369 million worth...
England's faltering economy makes decisions about new towns tough for the Government. The country has a limited amount of farmland and a severe housing shortage. But if new towns are to be built, farmlands must be lost. In addition, England's balance of trade deficit has forced Wilson to freeze wages and tighten money. But these measures make investors less willing to move or expand into new towns...
...even the rockiest farmland, plows dig freely across the fields, the threat of grinding halts eliminated by hydraulic systems that deftly trip the blades over hidden stumps and stones...
Smiths & Sidewheelers. Last month Shelburne was-in a manner of speaking-completed, when J. Watson Webb Jr., her son and president of the museum, dedicated the 35th building on what is now a 45-acre expanse of farmland: a white 1830 Greek Revival-style house designed to display the paintings and furnishings from his parents' Manhattan apartment. (They died in 1960.) The new building joins eight Early American houses, eight barns and sheds, a general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga. Most...