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Taming Mato Grosso. Equally important, Urubupungá, like Brasília before it, will be a force in shifting the center of gravity westward into the nation's vast undeveloped sectors. Beyond the flatlands surrounding the Paraná River is the wild frontier of Mato Grosso, where cattlemen, rubber gatherers, construction men and Indians fight the jungle and sometimes each other. While the initial lure was gold, the area has been found rich in iron, manganese and limestone, not to mention fertile grazing pastures. The trouble is transportation, which is nearly nonexistent...
...Charolais in North America were brought to Mexico from their native France in the 1920s. But for years U.S. foot-and-mouth-disease restrictions and Mexican law allowed them to trickle north of the border only periodically. Nonetheless, the creamy-white, deep-chested Charolais quickly caught on with U.S. cattlemen because they are one of the world's heaviest breeds. They grow faster than most cattle; after weaning, many gain 100 lbs. a month. Two years ago, there were 30,000 purebred Charolais in the U.S. Today, there are nearly 50,000, plus another 200,000 crossbreeds...
...Senate seat occupied by liberal Democrat Lee Metcalf, 55, maintains stoutly that "the rights of the people are being taken away" by Washington. Though Montana has elected only one Republican Senator in 60 years, the Governor strikes a responsive chord among the state's inflation-conscious cattlemen and lumbermen by demanding cutbacks in federal spending. Potentially, however, the most profitable issue for Babcock is the junior Senator's disagreement with the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy. While Metcalf advocates that the U.S. "pull out of the jungles and hold the enclaves we have in hand," Babcock...
...Sandoz, 68, folklorist of the U.S. Great Plains; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though she lived and wrote in Greenwich Village for the past 20 years, Mari Sandoz knew much of the Plains firsthand, as a Nebraska sod-buster's daughter in the 1900s who had "seen the settler-cattlemen fights" and been wounded twice herself. In later years, she was forever "tearing around on horseback and climbing the Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never dulled...
...wanted at all, and the constitution turned out to be a death blow to the government. Under a barrage of charges that it was soft on Africans, the United Party was swept out of office in elections the following year. A new party, built on a hard core of cattlemen, tobacco men and right-wing labor leaders, was on the rise; its platform was white supremacy or death, and its founder was Ian Smith...