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Cabinet Candy. On a normal day, he rises at 7, breakfasts lightly on fruit juice, tea and dry toast, then retires to his private chapel for morning prayers. By 9 he is in his study, reading the Madrid newspapers and the official reports stacked high on his large mahogany desk. The calm does not last long. At midmorning the palace is invaded by Franco's seven grandchildren (ages one to 14). Trailed by their English nanny, they race down the Pardo's wide granite corridors, past six-foot honor guards and enormous Goya tapestries, and burst into...
...Friday, when he meets his Cabinet. The sessions have become legendary. They begin at 9 a.m., usually last well past midnight, with an hour's break for lunch. No smoking is permitted, no water provided. The only concession to mortal weakness is a small silver tray of fruit candy at each place around the long oak conference table. But as the day wears on, one minister after another will catch Franco's eye, get his nodded permission to be excused, and tiptoe out of the room for a cigarette or a trip to the men's room...
Since the road's opening in 1960, some 600,000 settlers have poured into the area to tap Brazil's immense riches. Every day long lines of trucks rumble north and south carrying out lumber, rubber and vegetable oil. New farmlands produce beans, rice, corn and fruit to feed Brazil's exploding population; what was once useless scrub in the central state of Goiás is now pasture land for 4,000,000 head of cattle. And prospectors fanning out from the road have found a vast mineral potential, with deposits of nickel, tin, lead, zinc...
While I'm munching your fruit...
...Feeding Fruit Flies. Their long search, the three Cornell researchers report in Nature, turned up six still-unidentified chemical compounds that apparently had been produced by the irradiation of the sugar found in coconut milk. To confirm their unexpected finding, they irradiated pure sugar and fed it to the buds and roots of other plants and to fruit flies. Again, although the sugar itself was not radioactive, it produced radiation-like results in both the experimental plants and insects; normal growth was noticeably stunted and damaged or altered chromosomes were found...