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TOMORROW'S WORLD: FEEDING THE BILLIONS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A land-clearing project in the Amazon jungles, an Idaho fish farm, and large-scale production of protein-rich algae in California are some of the experiments under way to expand the world's food supply...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Alexander Scourby narrates "The Amazon," a study of the 3,900-mile river from its headwaters in Peru, through Brazil to its mouth in the Atlantic...
Change in Cultures. Nature is already giving way. Now some 30% completed or under construction, Belaunde's Marginal Highway-so called because it skirts the edge of the Amazon rain forest-is changing the lives of thousands of Andean Indians who have lived for centuries in hopeless poverty and despair. With the road come jobs, and with the jobs come large payrolls ($1.75 to $2.50 a day for laborers) that enrich the local economy and help usher in such 20th. century conveniences as sewers, electricity and refrigeration. Once a section of the road is completed, local farmers are able...
BETWEEN MAULE AND AMAZON by Arnold J. Toynbee. 154 pages. Oxford University Press...
...Between Maule and Amazon, Toynbee writes briefly about his most recent travels in Latin America and saves for his last page a firm course of treatment for that troubled continent: "My first step would be to dump all the statues of San Martin in the Atlantic, all the statues of O'Higgins in the Pacific, and all the statues of Bolivar in the Caribbean, and I would forbid their replacement, under pain of death...