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...response to farm-belt complaints that prices previously had dropped so low as to threaten bankruptcies among some animal raisers and feedlot operators, the Government is buying up $100 million of "excess" beef and pork for use in its school-lunch program, and has asked Australia and New Zealand to "voluntarily" restrain meat exports...
...school lunch programs. Butz himself threatened to recommend "drastic action" against Canada-such as curbing egg imports-unless that nation drops its recent ban on U.S. beef from steers fed a growth hormone that is prohibited there. He also tried to persuade Australia and New Zealand to cut back beef exports to the U.S. That was not enough to please farm belt politicians, who pressed for reimposition of the outright controls on meat imports that the Administration dropped...
...Bailey had their breakfast interrupted by sperm whale, which rammed their twin-keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft...
Cheap and Ample. Heat from the earth also powers the generators of plants in Italy, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan. Because the energy is cheap, almost inexhaustible and relatively clean, it is also being developed by some 25 other countries, from Chile to Taiwan, Ethiopia to Indonesia...
Died. Sir Leslie Knox Munro, 72, astute diplomat and president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1957 to 1958; near Auckland, in his native New Zealand. After successive careers as teacher, lawyer, and newspaper editor, Munro was sent abroad in 1952 as ambassador to the U.S. and permanent representative to the United Nations. At various times during the next eleven years, he was president of the Security Council and the General Assembly, and also served as U.N. special representative on Hungary. A tall, imposing figure and excellent public speaker, Munro returned to New Zealand...