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...nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...
...lettuce producers are weathered in. In that short space of 90 days, the valley's farmers supply the U.S. with 80% of its winter lettuce for an annual take of $22 million. Depending on Eastern supply and demand, prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. Says one grower: "It makes the stock market seem tame by comparison." Into this vulnerable area, where any work stoppage can ruin a season, moved the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to organize the valley's lettuce pickers...
...family, Cuba's No. 1 Wise Man had a questionable gift. At a meeting in Havana, a claque of well-rehearsed sugar growers voted to abolish the long-established Cuba Cane Growers' Association and to condemn one man who spoke out against the move. The man was Castro's older (36) brother, Sugar Grower Ramón Castro, who helped the revolution with funds but has been increasingly critical of its recent course. The meeting derided Ramón Castro for "utilizing the name of the Prime Minister." And it urged jail for members...
...campaign, persistent, oratorical Democrat William Guy, 41, an agricultural economist and sugar-beet grower, argued that after 16 years of Republican Governors, North Dakota was due for a change. The voters agreed. Crew-cut Billy Guy, who wants a state income tax to finance needed school expansion, was an easy winner over Lieutenant Governor Clarence P. Dahl, 68, a spry, folksy campaigner with an undistinguished record...
Operation Consume, the Republican program, offers to repay the farmer in kind for land which he agrees to take out of production. Under this program, no farmer would receive funds from the Federal government. Instead, for example, a wheat-grower will allow his land to lie fallow, receiving the equivalent amount of grain from the Federal storage bin. He would then sell this wheat at market prices...