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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Temple in Ozuki, seven former Japanese army pilots last week gathered for one of the most improbable war reunions ever. They were the survivors of Katsura Squadron, one of the Kamikaze ("Divine Wind") Special Attack Corps groups designed to destroy the U.S. fleet in the desperate months before V-J day. The women were the girls the pilots had left behind, never, as far as anyone then knew, to see again...
...spray their crops entirely from planes. A single U.S. farm worker now feeds 37 people, nearly twice as many as he did only a decade ago. And despite rising prices, U.S. consumers get off with spending the world's smallest share of their aftertax income for food: 19% (v. 29% in Britain, 45% in Italy, 80% in India...
Vital as research is, victory over hunger also demands that backward countries scale new heights of social, political and economic organization. As the U.S. example shows, it takes vast amounts of capital-$30,500 per U.S. farm worker v. $19,600 for an industrial worker. Some experts figure that developing countries must invest $80 billion before 1980 just to feed their growing populations at today's unhappy level. Beyond that, there is a need for chains of agricultural-research centers and schools abroad, partly staffed by an army of young U.S. technicians-one Congressman would call them the "bread...
...story was right out of TV's spy-spoofing Get Smart! When a top CIA man named Hans V. Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers-and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit...
Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...