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...Alliance, he said, has brought "no new unity, no true alliance and no real progress." The Administration has polished off Latin American problems-"as indeed the whole world's problems"-as "political sloganry. They are not solved; they are merely salved, by talk, talk, and more talk. Patch a crisis there; prescribe a pill somewhere else; make a concession here, there, the next place; promise, promise, promise; spend, spend, spend; elect, elect, elect, elect...
...grass sound asleep. His face was dirt-smudged, he had lost one shoe, there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter [My name is Peter...
Victims of Failure. But land reform often goes wrong. One of the early land-reforming presidents, Plutarco Elias Calles, left office in 1928 disillusioned. "Happiness of the peasants," he said, "cannot be assured by giving them a patch of land, if they lack preparation and the necessary elements to cultivate it." On uneconomic small plots carved out of land fit only for cattle-grazing or large-scale farming, peasants often fall hopelessly in debt or become victims of land speculators. Those who still use the wooden stick plows of their grandfathers can scarcely scratch out a living on plots that...
...fishing who don't have to go any more. Not people in rubber boots who read Field & Stream, but the old bamboo-pole fishermen who half the time forgot to bait their hooks and just sat there for hours and hours staring at the same 21-in. patch of water. As the current moved, the patch was never the same from second to second but always the same in every tomorrow. Now all those fishermen are sitting at home staring into a 21-in. patch of glass...
...Urban Age, Agronomist Edward Higbee, a University of Rhode Island professor, takes a refreshingly clear-eyed look at the miracle and the mess. Sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund, the book cuts through the confusion of federal farm policy like a well-honed scythe leveling a weed patch...