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...sinewy Sardinian immigrant, Nivola loves outdoor public sculpture. He has sand-cast a 100-ton bas-relief for a Hartford, Conn., insurance company, carved out abstract fountains and reliefs in raw concrete for the late Eero Saarinen's brace of new colleges at Yale...
Italy and France grow nearly all of the area's annual 110,000-ton output but no European kitchen could long survive without garlic. Some Europeans even swear by it as a remedy for rheumatism; Russians eat garlic to fight the common cold, last week rushed in an emergency 500 tons for Moscow's flu epidemic...
...Explosives. The increase in sugar production has produced some sour with the sweet. Exceptional harvests all around the world will create a 4.4 million-ton surplus this year; prices have toppled from 11.18? per Ib. only last month to last week's 2.20?. Two companies operated by Julio Lobo, the world's foremost sugar buyer, recently went bankrupt by banking on a rising market. The situation is complicated by Castro's Cuba, whose crop this year is expected to rebound to 5 million tons. Russia, the world's largest grower (from sugar beets), takes...
...Dutch set up a sugar industry for Ethiopia, where coffee was traditionally seasoned with salt and spices, and so converted the Ethiopians to sweetness that they have now become modest exporters of sugar. Turkey has also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year and is trying to teach its Indian population to like sugar. Chile now saves $20 million annually by refining domestic sugar beets, has also fattened its cattle industry by feeding livestock the refinery residue...
...pollution. And, quite beyond these uses, sugar has one major value that no nation dare ignore: from the rum and cachaza of Brazil to Indonesian Arak, it is the universal base for alcoholic drinks. In Peru, where a drop in the U.S. import quota has caused a 220,000-ton sugar surplus, W. R. Grace & Co. intends to solve a national economic crisis in an ingenious way: Grace will use the excess to make, under license, Smirnoff vodka and Gordon...