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Dick Lincoln's boat will race the big one, with Lowell Laporte's crew in the jayvee spot. Varsity boating are Lindy Watkins, 7; Ted House, 6; Randy Seed, 5; Ray Burns, 4; Steve Leland, 3; Bob Lofgren, 2; Joe Brown, bow. Bruce Williams...
...bought 171,000 tons of fertilizer (superphosphate and ammonium sulphate) on world markets; 50,000 tons have already been unloaded at Pusan and Inchon. Except in a few drought-stricken areas, there is enough seed rice for this year's crop. For those who cannot pay or get credit, seed and fertilizer are doled out free. The myun jons, or township supervisors, are settling disputes and watching out for claim jumpers. So far there has been little trouble: by annihilating one farm family in ten, war has made enough land...
...groups, the percentage is much lower; out of a class of 60, only 15 may be baptized. Sheen vigorously disclaims any personal credit for these conversions. He considers himself merely "a spiritual agriculturist [who] tills the soil. All the tilling in the world would make no difference if the seed had not been dropped...
...heavier of the two boats is stroked by veteran Ray Burns. Lindy is at seven, Ted House at six, Randy Seed at five, Dick Lincoln at four, Oliver Leland at three, Bob Lofgren at two, and Joe Brown...
...Horace Holmes, now chief of agriculture in India's Point Four program, began his experiment in the Etawah district in northern India in 1948 (TIME, Jan. 22, 1951). Says he: "I found the Indian farmer struggling with the same problems that we have in America . . . lack of good seed, lack of sufficient credit, poor land, diseases, insects, drought and pests." Holmes did not attempt to mechanize Etawah, but showed the Indian farmers how to use their primitive implements to better effect. He persuaded them to make compost of village waste, thus indirectly imposing sanitation where none had existed...