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...Tanzania hopes to develop new uses for its threatened crop. To that end, a consortium of Canadian and European banks has invested some $28 million in a mill to turn sisal into paper pulp. In neighboring Kenya, the world's fourth largest sisal producer, experiments aimed at producing fodder and fertilizer from sisal fibers are under way. Other leading sisal producers, including Brazil and Haiti, have agreed to pool their resources to promote their produce against the steady inroads of the synthetics...
...scout from the Broncos told me that the '49ers would use me for cannon fodder in the tryout camp," Crimson offensive tackle Bob Brooks said yesterday...
...analysis of Professor Hammond uncovered a flaw in the onesided Classical presentation of the battle. The Ionian Greeks in the army of the Persians secretly informed their cousins from Athens early in the morning of the battle that the Persian cavalry had left the field, presumably for water and fodder. This was the signal for the Athenians to attack and the battle...
Fitzwilly, the hero of this bit of family fodder, is a larcenous butler with a heart of pablum and a summa cum laude college degree. He keeps his daffy dowager boss (Edith Evans) in the chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores. When the old lady hires a pert new secretary (Barbara Feldon) with a suspicious nature, the wily Fitzwilly (Dick Van Dyke) has to scramble to bring off the big one-Gimbels on Christmas...
...deserts. More than 2,000 Army, Navy and Air Force men, Civil Air Patrol flyers and Job Corps workers aided state road and rescue crews in missions varying from "candy drops" (for the 22,000 Indian boarding-school students stranded during the holidays) to "Operation Haylift" (pinpoint parachuting of fodder to the 584,600 or more horses, sheep and cattle...