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...November 1940, the last American plane that got out of France, just one step ahead of the invading Nazis, carried an innocuous bundle addressed to Robert Pyle of West Grove, Pa. The bundle contained a handful of stems from a rosebush. All through the war, French Rose-Grower Francis Meilland worried about the prize he had sent to his fellow horticulturist. Not until 1945 did he learn that it had arrived safely, Pyle had nurtured it, patented its blossoms and produced hundreds of bushes from Meilland's hardy stock. Then he christened the pale gold roses "Peace," and distributed...
Alain Meilland, 27, a fifth-generation rose-grower who now heads the business, has a personal income of close to $200,000 a year. At least 10% of the millions of rose plants sold in the world every year, he says, are Meilland's. Since the success of Peace, professional rose-growers around the world buy his breeding stock, propagate it by grafting, and pay him royalties of 100 to 500 on each bush they sell. "We are a research laboratory whose sole purpose is to create beautiful roses," says Alain, as he points proudly to the family...
...floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel: "'Welcome,' I say to them. They are fighting for us. Is anyone else...
...campaign is undoubtedly squeezing the grower, but it is also bleeding the union, which needs some $50,000 a month to house and feed the strikers and cover other expenses. The A.F.L.C.I.O. is pouring $10,000 a month into Delano while Walter Reuther, a friend of Chavez, is contributing $7,500 from United Auto Workers union coffers. Of course, the workers need far more than that, not only in terms of money but moderation as well...
Uproot More Trees. Still, the situation is vastly better than it was five years ago before the 61 nations negotiated their first international coffee agreement. Until that time, the grower nations, lured by a postwar demand, planted and pushed onto world markets so much coffee that supply and demand reversed and prices dropped badly. The agreement corrected that by establishing stringent export quotas for each coffee-producing member...