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...than more tractors. Laborsaving equipment "may help to ease the peasant's burden," said Sir Alexander, "but we must beware of suddenly knocking it off his back or he will stumble and fall into unemployment." Greatly increased yields can be obtained by such simple devices as an improved plow, which could be drawn by a bullock, or by increased use of fertilizer. "Just as most people are starved for food, most crops are starved of essential elements-nitro gen, phosphorus and potassium." Though production of nitrogen fertilizer has now reached 10 million tons a year, it "still ranks...
...intention, put over-simply, was to show that each soul has its dark places, and that people can, with love, help each other past these stair tops. Actor Preston just does not behave like a man afraid of the dark. He roars about, spending energy as if he could plow a field without a horse. The viewer knows that Preston will get another job, and can only grin when the frustrated fellow complains that his wife (Dorothy McGuire) treats him "like change from a nickel" and thunders out of the house vowing that "Ah'm goan to see Mavis...
...goal is a 33% increase in food production in five years-enough to enable India to feed itself. Western experts think it can be done, but the problem narrows down to the special and often exasperating problems of "the man behind the plow," the Indian khaki farmer...
...sheer weariness. Makarios will take office with wide personal popularity among the Greek Cypriot majority and a $40 million going-away present from the British. He will use it over the next five years to build roads and try to get Cypriot agriculture out of the wooden-plow stage. Simply by signing the treaty last week, Makarios guaranteed that the island's 12,000 restless unemployed will soon be at work on new base construction that the British plan...
...then that overfed and underexer-cised Americans are sowing the seeds of a coronary harvest. How to plow under this crop? Get more exercise. Dr. White, 73, walks miles each day, rides a bicycle, and in winter shovels snow...