Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislature, he suggested the eventual political and economic integration of all the Americas. As an immediate economic step, he pleaded for what amounted to U.S. crop supports for Latin American agricultural products (coffee, sugar, bananas). "Three years ago," he recalled, "Costa Rica was persuaded to cultivate more cocoa, then selling for $65. So we planted more cocoa, using our own modest purse. Now cocoa sells for $25, and whole provinces of Costa Rica are suffering." In a TV talk at week's end, he returned to his main theme. "Puerto Rico's destiny," he said, "is to serve...
Under the gradually slackening reins of colonial dominion, Nigeria has achieved a high degree of national prosperity. In 1954 its favorable trade balance of exports (cocoa, palm oil, peanuts) over imports reached a record $100 million. Even among the slums and squalor of beggar-strewn Lagos there are startling evidences of a middle-class prosperity: neat two-story homes in Ikoyi suburb, equipped with every modern convenience; a ramshackle bar in Shopono Street doing a hotcakes business in the best imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice...
...largely by the Nigerians themselves. Known to its intimates as Sweatpot-by-the-Sea, Lagos today is the capital of a loose federation of three largely autonomous regions: the rural Christian and pagan Eastern Nigeria of the Ibo tribesmen; the Christian and pagan West of the Yoruba, rich with cocoa profits; and the Moslem North of the Hausa and Fulani, where powerful emirs struggle to protect the traditions of a feudal past. Each section hates and distrusts the others. Her Majesty's government has offered Nigeria various plans for independence, but, says one native minister: "We are not ready...
...calisthenics, proceeds on a split-second schedule which keeps him constantly moving on the double. He is never left unsupervised. (At Kidlington there are eleven staff members watching over 55 boys.) After breakfast and inspection, the younger boys attend classes; the older ones work about the grounds (with brief cocoa break at 11) until 11:55, break for lunch, return to a work detail until 4:25, when they knock off for tea. Evenings are devoted to metalworking, basket weaving or woodwork, with dinner at 8:10, followed by chapel and lights...
...childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...