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...regulate distribution by making up "food zones" have only resulted in further disrupting the supply. Panic buying creates false scarcities, and Indian officials bitterly admit that, after massive government investment in agriculture, the country still must rely on the U.S. for some three million tons of crucially needed wheat this year...
...rises with the sun and stands on his head. I ask him upside down what he wants for breakfast, and it's the usual oats, wheat, fruit, yogurt. Then he's off and running. He doesn't have a schedule-it's a palimpsest...
...attitudes are paying off. Despite a gritty drought in 1961-62, there are now some 40 million cattle on Argentina's pampas-and even that is not enough to fill both domestic and foreign demand. Instead of just livestock, the land is producing vast amounts of wheat and other crops; in the next few years a $50 million irrigation project will transform the arid pampa seca southwest of Buenos Aires into a 200,000-acre region that will eventually produce $60 million worth of fodder, fruit and vegetables annually. There are few regrets for the pampas...
...that he's rundown. Each day Bobo gets a massive dose of vitamin E, swigs pure wheat-germ oil, eight raw egg yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound...
...this month. Also ahead is another round of talks on the Kashmir problem with the Pakistanis. Looming over everything is the need to cope with India's growing food problem. Last week with Shastri up and around again, the government decreed a comprehensive system of price controls for wheat and rice. Then it launched a series of police raids on grain speculators, turning up 7,000 tons of hoarded wheat in a single...