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Few projects have ignited Latin American imaginations more than Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry's "Marginal Highway." Envisioned as the key for unlocking the vast, virginal resources of the eastern Andean foothills, the road was originally planned to run 1,500 miles across Peru.
Change in Cultures. Nature is already giving way. Now some 30% completed or under construction, Belaunde's Marginal Highway-so called because it skirts the edge of the Amazon rain forest-is changing the lives of thousands of Andean Indians who have lived for centuries in hopeless poverty and...
The so-called discount stores are nonetheless multiplying fast; they now account for about $15 billion in annual sales. S. S. Kresge Co., which last year passed Korvette as the biggest discount chain, has 204 K Mart discount stores and plans to add 50 new ones in the next year...
Bumper Crop. The nation's 3,200,000 farms make up its No. 1 industry, with assets totaling $273 billion, a $20 billion chunk of it tied up in machinery so costly that, as Federal Reserve Bank Agricultural Economist Roby Sloan notes, "those without the managerial capacities, or who...
But Vietnam Summer may not provide all the answers for the undergraduate who is anxious to do his bit to end the war. There is the strong probability that because of its reluctance to come to grips with electoral politics--which will appear more and more important as the presidential...