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...With soil so rich that almost any crop will grow, Brazil is potentially one of the world's greatest agricultural nations. It exports cognac, champagne and wine to Argentina, the U.S. and Europe-including 30 million liters last year to France. It is the world's No. 1 producer and exporter of coffee, ranks seventh in soybeans and rice; sixth in tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts; fifth in jute; fourth in tobacco and cotton; second in sisal, cane sugar, cacao, corn, oranges. Yet its agricultural technology is primitive and its export potentiality (it grows more bananas and pineapple...
...indefinite" moratorium. Again, the U.S. originally wanted 20 on-site inspections a year in Russia, while the Soviets would tolerate only three. A couple of weeks ago, when the U.S.'s tough, patient Negotiator Arthur Dean offered a new compromise plan providing for twelve inspections annually on Soviet soil. Russian Delegate Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin damned the idea as "unrealistic, impractical and not conducive to agreement...
Chief Justice Earl Warren admitted that the laws grew out of religious soil, but added that they are now intended to promote national comfort more than a national church. Said he: "People of all religions and people with no religion regard Sunday as a time for family activity, for late sleeping, for passive and active entertainments, for dining out and the like...
Stirred into the soil, Avadex (Monsanto Chemical Co.) kills wild oats just as seeds begin to sprout. Carbyne (Spencer Chemical Co.) is sprayed on weed seedlings causing them to turn blue and shrivel, while surrounding wheat continues to thrive. Tested on wheatfields in Can ada and the U.S., the two chemicals have been a spectacular success, sometimes boosting an area's yield by as much as 15 bu. an acre. They will get their first full-scale workout this spring on the rolling wheatland of Western Canada...
Drilling for Brine. Irrigation carries its own problems: nonsalty river water leaches out salts as it seeps through the soil, and much of it returns to streams, threatening their potability. In parts of Oklahoma and Texas, well drillers often get only a disappointing brine. Galveston's city supply is so loaded-351 p.p.m.-that newcomers say, "It's like drinking out of the bay." Private wells are the most variable. Federal geologists have found some in Kentucky with 31,100 p.p.m. and in Michigan with 66,700. Ocean water contains only 10,700 p.p.m...