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...village square of Anthili, 140 miles north of Athens, on the vast plain where the Persian King Xerxes camped in 480 B.C. before he charged Thermopylae, there stands a marble statue. It is not a monument to the defenders of Thermopylae, but to the recent rebirth of Anthili and the man who made it possible: Walter Eugene Packard, a Point Four soil reclamation expert from California...
Thirteen years ago, Packard persuaded the villagers to let him irrigate 100 acres of their arid, salty plain to grow rice. Within five years. Packard's project in Anthili and other towns had converted Greece from a country that annually imported $5,000,000 worth of rice to a nation that exported $5,000,000 worth-on an initial U.S. investment of $43,000. Other Point Four schemes trained a Greek agricultural staff to teach 8.000 villages such basic matters as tractor maintenance and cheese making, instructed technicians to operate a new electrical power system, reorganized an archaic police...
Says Lodge: "You've got to stand toe to toe with them and slug it out in terms of schedule, of hours, of energy, and of just plain determination." Dynastic Theme. Lodge intends to hit hard at Kennedy's lack of experience and the dynasty theme ("I'm not part of any dynasty. I don't have a brother in the White House"). Said he in his convention speech: "I am here because I am angered by the callous manner in which a single family has grasped for personal power; because I am amazed that their...
...group of friends a block away, and hear every word. " Also marketed by the friendly Futura people: the Big Voice ($12), a portable public-address system weighing only a pound, and the Big Blast ($10), a portable bullhorn "ideal for playground, spectator sports, boating, or just plain everyday...
TALES MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, by Sir Osbert Sitwell (207 pp.; Liftle, Brown; $4.75). As a family, the Sitwells-Sir Osbert, Dame Edith and just plain Sachev-erell-have got more literary linage out of self-exposure, on the basis of less actual literary accomplishment, than any artistic dynasty in history. Osbert. who earlier dealt exhaustively with all his relatives in his autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!, has now found that its five stout volumes were not enough. Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa...