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...occupation authorities in 1946. Today 87% of Japan's farm land is owned by the men who cultivate it, v. 54% prewar. Freed from rack-renting and aided by improved farming techniques, Japanese peasants have steadily increased their output. Before World War II, the average Japanese farmer was lucky to clear $500 (in today's money) a year. In 1958 he can count on an income of about...
...much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve the old clear outlines of human personality -Christians may well give thanks for the chance given us to establish, in marriage, a new level of intimate, loving interdependence between husband and wife and parents and children, freed from some of the old disciplines of fear...
...latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared a legal holiday and congratulatory wires flooded the desk of President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Exulted Mexico City's Universal: "Cananea is at last freed...
...clear that it would hold to its ban as far as Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet Nam) is concerned. Other nations follow no such double standard for Eastern Europe and Asia. They will now be allowed to export to any country that wants them such newly freed items as civil aircraft (including turboprop), all kinds of trucks, tankers under 18 knots, industrial diamonds, all petroleum refinery equipment, all turbines and diesel engines. But for all their cries that the relaxed embargo was a victory of "common sense," the U.S.'s allies expect no dramatic rise in trade...
...freed men were not nearly so carefree as some of those released earlier. They had fought off hordes of flies, had slept on the ground or in hammocks made from dirty burlap bags; more than half had dysentery from the uncertain diet. But they kept up military discipline and set their own order of release: married men first, then men with the lowest rank. As the last helicopter departed, the rebels turned their attention back to the business at hand: a rumored offensive by Dictator Fulgencio Batista...