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Largely because so much of Latin America is mountainous, arid or tropical, less than 5% (v. 16% in the U.S.) of its more than 7,700,000 sq. mi. of land is under cultivation. Experts also cite antique farming methods. In Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized...
...troops were soon besting the Viet Cong in fire fights from Chu Lai to An Khe. The 34,000 marines in Viet Nam boast a 5-1 kill ratio over the enemy, have spread their original beachhead until now they control 400 sq. mi. of territory. When a bad bit of intelligence unloaded the 101st Screaming Eagles from their helicopters right into a battalion of Viet Cong near An Khe, the Eagles fought hand-to-mortar until the field was theirs. Soon the increasing aggressiveness of American ground troops everywhere was adding yet another dimension of fear and uncertainty...
...only by roads so narrow and precipitous that they are impassable during rainstorms. Led by Castro Cuban advisers and supplied with Red Chinese arms ferried in from Tanzania to the lake port of Baraka, the 5,500-man ragtag rebel force was roaming at will through a 200-sq.-mi. patch of the eastern Congo, cutting roads, murdering and terrorizing the population. Tshombe knew the Simbas had to be driven out of Fizi, and to do the job he once again called on his favorite gun-for-hire, Mercenary Commander Mike Hoare...
...thin red line of empire was still unraveling last week. This time the scene of the fray was Aden, at the southern tip of Arabia, a barren 75-sq.-mi. crown colony that owes the relative prosperity of its 250,000 citizens largely to the fact that it is the second largest of Britain's dwindling overseas bases. That is at least one too many for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who for two years has backed a resistance movement to heave the British...
...those 70 years it has never once been to the Rose Bowl, and the last time it won an undisputed conference championship was in 1929. For that matter, Purdue has rarely even been the best team in the state of Indiana; Notre Dame is located just 104 mi. away in South Bend...