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...Jango") Goulart, 43, a labor-wooing leftist demagogue, hopped a plane for home. Opposed by Quadros but elected (with Communist support) under the Brazilian custom of permitting separate votes for President and Vice President, Goulart automatically would become President of Brazil the moment he touches Brazilian soil...
...family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. "Last fall they cleared out seven acres of my kale and 40 tons of swede [a kind of turnip grown for cattle fodder]." In Burgh Castle, after trapping 460 of the same varments that ate Banham's kale, Farmer John Berry was near despair: "If they carry on the way they do," said he, "they'll be master of the land in three years...
...late last week at Iowa State University. Directed by an organization called Heifer Project Inc. (which since 1944 has shipped more than 800,000 farm animals and chicks to 60 countries), Iowa State's farm-wise corpsmen will spend a month boning up for a tour of improving soil and livestock production on the West Indian island of Santa Lucia. One of Iowa State's volunteers is Madge Shipp, a Negro schoolteacher from Detroit whose age, 55, almost matches Penn State's Kennedys. She quit her $6,600-a-year teaching job because "I feel that people...
...Scraped Soil. Large areas of the test site are still littered with bomb-twisted steel and wrecked buildings, but the site's radioactivity has notably declined since the start of the test moratorium. "Hot" debris has been removed from the dangerous places where bombs exploded; in some cases several inches of soil have been scraped up with bulldozers. But caution has not relaxed. All workers wear radiation-detecting devices and are carefully checked in and out of their jobs...
...some bomb-denuded places bloomed during the following spring with unusually luxuriant growths of tumbleweed. Biologist Lora Shields of New Mexico Highlands University, who is studying the site's resurgent biology, says that the spherical tumbleweeds rolled across the denuded sites scattering their seeds, and found the atomized soil exactly to their liking. So far, no atom-induced plant mutations have appeared, and trees on a nearby mesa show no radiation damage. The local animals (red foxes, snakes, rodents) are doing fine-for the time being...