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...Join to expand world food production. The U.S. has belatedly lifted most growing restrictions on its farmers; the European Common Market should follow suit by scrapping or radically changing its common agricultural policy, which now subsidizes a vast patchwork of small, high-cost farms and inhibits the development of large-scale, efficient agriculture. Beyond that, major agricultural nations, led by the U.S., should join to help such places as Kenya and the basins of the Amazon and Congo rivers achieve their vast food-growing potential. The technology...
...decent emotional relationship, so confused and compulsive that he revels in the chance to assume fresh identities with every dis guise. Such subtleties, however, are drowned out in the prevailing frenzy of Sidney Lumet's direction, and by the musical score of Mikis Theodorakis, which sounds like a patchwork of his music from Z and a concert of favorite folk songs by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Band...
Heading the list of Blue's unacknowledged credits is Easy Rider, with all its patchwork imitations. The script concerns a sawed-off Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) who yearns to achieve style and respect by becoming a detective like Marve Poole (Mitchell Ryan). His goonish partner Zipper (Billy Green Bush) laughs at his aspirations, but their discovery of the body of a desert old-timer who may have been associated with some drug traffic gives Winter-green the chance to prove his stuff...
Already the land-poor country's 700 golf courses take up as much space as 1½ Tokyos. Seven hundred more courses are on the planning boards, and nature lovers have nightmares of the whole country eventually being converted into one vast patchwork of putting greens and sand traps. In Chiba prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, there are so many courses that the area is becoming known as "the golfers' Ginza...
Much of the mood in Minnesota has to do with the comparatively unspoiled land. Southern Minnesota is an expanse of rolling countryside, a patchwork of rectangular fields, the loam that has made Minnesota the country's third largest corn producer (after Iowa and Nebraska), the soil that yields 100 bushels of corn and 40 bushels of soybeans to the acre. To the north and west, the land flattens into prairies that merge going eastward, with hills of nearly primeval forest. The northwestern lands are more sandy, but rich enough to produce ample crops of wheat...