Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HILL. Looking less like Bond and more like Gable, Sean Connery leads a handful of World War II unfortunates up and down a sandy pyramid in Director Sidney (The Pawnbroker) Lumet's forceful if conventional drama of men v. masters in a British army stockade...
...which the FAO keeps figures, a minimum intake of 2,200 calories a day is met in only eight-Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay. In the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala, the average is fewer than 2,200 calories per day v. a U.S. average of 3,100. More disturbing still, Latin America's food production is slipping behind its population growth-to the point where this year's projected per capita production will be 11% less than the prewar average...
Largely because so much of Latin America is mountainous, arid or tropical, less than 5% (v. 16% in the U.S.) of its more than 7,700,000 sq. mi. of land is under cultivation. Experts also cite antique farming methods. In Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized...
William F. Buckley Jr. has stolen the show in New York's Mayoralty race. Originally slated for a bit part, the haughty, scornful, sometimes incisive Conservative candidate has enlivened a production previously deadened by the broken-record repetitiousness of the predicted star, John V. Lindsay. The pollsters report that only Buckley is making gains among the audience-electorate...
...Lewis Walt's Third Marine Amphibious Force. The Army's biggest clout is contained in the recently created Field Force Viet Nam under Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen. Headquartered in Nha Trang in the largest and hardest-pressed of Viet Nam's four corps areas, Force V includes the First Team at An Khe, the 101st Airborne's 1st Brigade, and the arriving South Koreans, who will be under American command. The Royal Australian Regiment and the Royal New Zealand Artillery batteries are largely under their own command. Working from the long-established pattern...