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...farmers who sell their groves and pastures to the builders of sprawling suburbs, they simply move to farm land elsewhere and begin again. In California, where farmland prices have shot up 60% since 1957, that process has lately meant that growers from Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, have been bidding up the much lower price of land in the Sacramento Valley 500 miles north...
Last month Charles de Gaulle imperiously decreed that he wants all forces belonging to his 14 NATO partners removed from French soil by next April 1. He meant, of course, chiefly the Americans, whose 26,000 troops dwarf other national contingents, but he also intended to evict the NATO military headquarters in Rocquencourt, near Paris. Last week began the inevitable fencing aimed at delaying or modifying the departures. It was led off by some fancy footwork...
Slowly, the British were making their point that shipping oil to Rhodesia is a risky operation. Serving notice that Britain meant to use its U.N.-granted powers, the British frigate Berwick had intercepted the Manuela 150 miles from Beira and diverted it to Durban. Though Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has repeatedly vowed that he would not honor the British embargo, he had some second thoughts about permitting the Manuela to unload its oil for transshipment overland to Rhodesia-a highly expensive method for the Rhodesians but better than nothing. South Africa finally promised Britain that it would ban the Manuela...
...increase, from 5½% to 5¾%, was the second ¾% rise in just over two months. It pushed the FHA rate to a level reached only once before in its 32-year history, from September 1959 to February 1961. With FHA's ½% mortgage-insurance premium, it meant that FHA home buyers will pay 6¼% on loans negotiated from last week...
World War I was notable for the testing of many inventions. Thermite came along, mustard gas and the flamethrower, but the prime change in warfare stemmed from the ability of modern industry to turn out an unlimited quantity of high explosives. What this meant in chilling human terms is the burden of Chapman's fine book. It is grave and sardonic, but not extravagantly so, about staff officers and others who contrived cushy jobs out of the war; it is pious toward the dead, and the living are sketched cleanly in a line or two, unforgettably and unsentimentally...