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...these days of Fidel Castro and the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American peasant has taken his place with the Mets fan as one of nature's most familiar and least understood noblemen. Silhouetted against a tropical sunset, there he stereotypically stands, leaning on his hoe and dreaming dreams of land reform and a greater gross national product per capita...
...Lady Bird Johnson would put it, she has been "busier than a man with one hoe and two rattlesnakes...
NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (Columbia). Isaac Stern may have a peer or two among the world's violinists, but this is merely a breezy and beautiful little effort. Stern glides through a dozen "great violin favorites"-Greensleeves, Humoresque, Hoe-Down-and the album should keep...
...hardy weed that sprouts between the cotton rows again and again, despite the heftiest doses of weed killer. A brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback to the system is that the geese, grown fat from their weed-gorging, occasionally trample down the young cotton. But after their chores are done, and the cotton is safely...
Ismail Y. Yusupov, 48, knew that he had a tough row to hoe when he was named Communist Party boss in the problem-plagued virgin lands of Kazahkstan (TIME, Jan. 4). But he could hardly have guessed the extent of the mess he would inherit from his purged predecessor. Last week Yusupov published a report charging that more than $600 million had been wasted during the last three years on ill-conceived projects; no fewer than 16,139 regional officials were fired last year alone, 2,340 of them for stealing and embezzling $1,270,000. A gang of crooks...