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Five years ago, the Andean highlands of southern Peru were hit by disastrous drought. The 1,000,000 Indian peasants, who chronically suffer from malnutrition, faced outright famine. From Point Four headquarters in Washington went orders that sent 100,000 tons of surplus corn, wheat, barley and dried milk on its way to Peru. The tragic story of just how little of the food found its way into the stomachs of starving Peruvians emerged last week, thanks to a congressional committee in Washington and a hard-digging U.S. newspaperman in Lima...
...metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze and can hear the rustling. Sculpture comes alive when the sculptor works with the same basic things that please us in nature-color, light, motion and sound...
...countermeasure Quadros last week abolished highly preferential exchange rates that in effect subsidized imports of oil, wheat, newsprint, fertilizers and machinery. He warned that this would cause price rises in consumer items. But, he predicted, it would increase the cost of living a mere 2%, v. Brazil's 85% price jump in the past two years...
travelers returning from Canada be left as they are. Fleming and team praised the humanitarian aspects of the new Administration's Food for Peace program but registered clear Canadian reservations about its possible adverse effect on foreign sales of Canadian wheat...
...university is the brain center of the state. It houses the Minneapolis Symphony, the Twin Cities' main longhair radio station, a theater, a natural history museum. From the university's labs have come hardier hogs, wheat and strawberries. By developing a way to extract iron ore from low-grade taconite. the university helped save northern Minnesota's depleted Mesabi Range...