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Flood Tide of Plenty. That lesson has never been more conclusively demonstrated than in the summer of 1965. This month and next, despite three decades of heroic federal efforts to limit the land's insistent bounty, farmers from ocean to ocean and border to border will harvest the largest crop in the nation's history-1.4 billion bu. of wheat, up 7% from last year; 4.1 billion bu. of corn, up 15% ; 961 million bu. of oats, up 9% ; 624 million bu. of grain sorghum, up 27% ; 120 million tons of hay, up 3% ; 864 million...
...crash program of agricultural aid. Though industrial projects already un der way ($5 billion worth of them) will be allowed to reach completion, the heavier effort for the next few years will go into quick-yielding small projects for farmers - wells, irrigation and roads. This year's harvest gives him a breather: 87,200,000 tons of grain have been cut and winnowed...
Sown Scraps. Mysticism threads itself not only through Gibran's work but through his life. As a boy of four in Bsherri, a village perched amid Lebanon's northern mountains, he sowed bits of torn paper in his garden and waited patiently for a harvest of full leaves. The mystic did not find a cult until he moved to the U.S., where he exhibited his drawings-which blend elements of William Blake and Maxfield Parrish-and held a kind of mystical court in his Greenwich Village studio...
...Mixed Harvest. The scraps of paper planted by Gibran have borne bountiful fruit: nearly $1,000,000 in royalties to date, some $100,000 more every year. Gibran, who coveted both fame and riches, died too soon to reap most of this harvest. His will left everything to the place of his birth, Bsherri. But except for Gibran's body, which was sent home to be entombed in the monastery of Mar Markis, Bsherri has little to show...
Depressed Market. Fidel's impatience was understandable. In the past five years, per-capita income has dropped 15% in Cuba. After an abortive attempt at crash industrialization, Castro has again turned priority effort toward sugar, Cuba's one cash crop. The current harvest has produced a healthy 6,000,000 tons. Trouble is, so much of it (4,800,000 tons) has already been committed-to Russia, Red China and other countries, under barter agreements-that only 800,000 tons are left, after domestic needs, to sell for badly needed foreign exchange...