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Nowhere is the problem more pressing than in La Laguna. a 2,000-sq.-mi. farm belt in north central Mexico that is a sort of microcosm of the ills afflicting the Mexican farmer. For years, La Laguna was rich and productive, watered by late summer showers and the Nazas and Aguanaval rivers. More than half of the country's cotton came from the area. Then 15 years ago, the rains tailed off, the rivers began drying up, and the crops dwindled to half their former size. Now, over a year's time, ten times more water evaporates...
...first time since the dam was completed in the 1940s, no water will be available this year to irrigate the newly seeded cotton fields below. It has not rained at all this year, and in 1962 only six inches of rain fell, the lowest record in memory. "In La Laguna," goes the expression, "it doesn't rain water, it rains dust." Last month, 30 blue-painted trucks with the federal government's CONASUPO relief agency emblem arrived to start distributing food. CONASUPO used to operate only in Mexico City. But now, says La Laguna operations director Gilberto Martinez...
...Roger Penske, up-and-coming U.S. auto racer from Gladwyne, Pa.: the $20,000 Pacific Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, Calif. Driving a homemade car that he put together from a beat-up Cooper and a new Climax engine, Penske took the championship when Dan Gurney's Lotus Mark 19 went bad. Penske's purse...
...continent away from Atlanta, the steel skeletons of San Diego's new skyscrapers stretch above the immaculate white city that curves back from the Pacific toward the Laguna Mountains. The yacht basins are crowded with boats; sumptuous motels for sybaritic tourists are rising outside town. But beneath the clamor and the glitter, San Diego-the city that brashly bet heavily on the aircraft industry and cleaned up for nearly 15 years-is in missile-age trouble...
...Laguna Beach, Calif...