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Today most farmers are afraid to venture into their fields. The food situation is bad now, but it will be far worse next spring. I flew hundreds of miles over Macedonia and saw the fields of perhaps one farm in ten being plowed for winter wheat planting. And the usual herds of goats and sheep were missing from the scrub-covered hills...
...finance industrialization of Latin America, stabilize local currencies. In Rio de Janeiro, U.S. -wise Brazilian Businessman Valentim Bougas urged Latin Americans to follow the ex ample of European nations, which met in Paris last summer to canvass their needs. Latin delegates, Bougas said, should get together at Bogota ten days before the conference "to discuss beforehand the Marshall Plan for South America." An other proposal that Latin Americans would like to discuss: an Inter-American Bank, with the U.S. putting up the lion's share of the capital...
...Entire-group" is diplomatic double-talk for attractive, 20-year-old Lidiya Leisina, U.S.S.R. citizen. Last year she married Alvaro Cruz, son of Chilean Ambassador Luiz Cruz Ocampo. Ten months ago, Ambassador Cruz told President Gonzalez Videla that he was resigning, but he stayed on, trying to get his daughter-in-law out of Russia. Holding to its standard position toward Soviet women married to foreigners (TIME, April 21), Russia refused to let her go. At week's end Russia was still saying no, Lidiya was still in Moscow, Hostage Zhukov still in Santiago...
...five and ten, Prince Michael and Princess Alexandra, son & daughter of the photogenic Duchess of Kent, already faced pretty heavy responsibilities. At Westminster next week, he would be a page and she a bridesmaid. Meantime they did their royal best to look like an unposed, unself-conscious family for the photographers...
Last week, Manhattan's dancers and dance fans-from nightclub whirlers to classic ballerinas-turned out to see the shiny-pated, lithe little fellow whom most of them consider the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky. It had been ten years since Kreutzberg had danced in the U.S., but at 44 he was still as mobile of face, and as agile of step and gifted of satire as ever. He is one of the few dancers alive who, with no company of dancers to surround him, no scenery to set him off, and only a piano to accompany him, could...