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...such corn-doctors are Iowa State College's President Charles E. Friley and Professor I. E. Melhus. Firmly believing that the way to study a plant is to go back to its place of origin, they were in Guatemala recently putting the final touches to a namey venture called the Iowa State College Guatemala Tropical Research Center-a corn study station in the beautiful ghost town of Antigua. 60 miles from Guatemala City...
They had gone to the right place. Experts say that most corn varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated...
...Guatemala. Last fortnight Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo rose from bed in plaster cast and dressing gown (TIME, Dec. 31) to denounce a fellow revolutionary whom he had dismissed from the Finance Ministry for acts jeopardizing the fruits of 1944's revolution...
Once-in 1859-the two countries tried to settle the dispute. Guatemala offered to recognize Britain's ownership provided Britain built a road between Guatemala City and the east coast. The British agreed, then reneged. That, argued Guatemala, outlawed the whole deal...
...Britain's offer to let the International Court decide, Guatemala agreed "in principle." In Washington a Guatemalan explained what that meant: Guatemala was waiting to see whether it would have "at least a few friends on the court...