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...involved The hard realities of nature had forced Peking's planners to recognize that despite all their emphasis on new steel plants, and the heady dream of transforming China overnight into a powerful industrial nation, China was still what it had always been-a country whose very livelihood depended on agriculture. Agricultural exports are still the major source of the foreign exchange that the Communists desperately need to buy machinery and tools. That recognition had brought about, almost unnoticed, a basic shift in Peking's official line...
...Bunker Hill Co.'s lead and zinc processing plant, where 80% of Kellogg's breadwinners earn their livelihood, has been shut by a strike since last May. More than 2,000 wage earners are out of work; the town is going broke, its population bleeding away to find other jobs elsewhere. On the brink of winter last week, negotiations for a settlement came to an abrupt, bitter halt...
East v. West. Not everyone in Portland greeted Lloyd's grand opening with joy. Its nearness to downtown Portland threatens the livelihood of many of the city's oldest merchants. Last year they formed Downtown Portland, Inc. to attract customers by putting potted trees on downtown sidewalks, devising plans to give customers parking rebates. But many downtown merchants-including Meier & Frank, Portland's largest department store-covered their bets by opening branches in the center. Some 595,000 people in the Portland metropolitan area live within a 20-minute drive of Lloyd Center...
...Argentina. During Ru-bottom's tenure, U.S. handling of Latin American relations has consisted chiefly of making, upon the arrival of a crisis, some concession that the U.S. previously vowed not to make. Item: for years the Latin American nations that rely largely on coffee for their livelihood asked the U.S. to cooperate in some form of international control over wild price fluctuations. In January 1958 Assistant Secretary Rubottom announced that price support would be "unwieldy and unworkable"; in May Vice President Nixon was stoned in Peru and Venezuela; the following month the U.S. joined an international coffee study...
...seems likely to dominate the game for the next decade or more. By nature, professional golf has always been a nerve-shaking test of the individual, who must face and face alone the task of knocking a stationary little white ball into a stationary little round hole, with his livelihood depending on a true stroke...