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After years of closure, the wooden barrier at the Iranian-Russian border was lifted last week, and a Russian train rolled across. A Russian bank official stepped out onto Iranian soil, greeted Iranian officials in Russian and presented his credentials...
...famed pisco brandy, grows the fine, long-staple cotton that is king of the country's exports. The Humboldt Current cools the whole coast, and as a crowning convenience serves up the anchovies that feed the seabirds that provide the guano (droppings) used to fertilize the soil. In the coastal north are oilfields that make Peru an oil exporter (though output is dropping...
Though Author Cadart is concerned professionally with snails as food, he seems to regard them, even uncooked, with affection. His first chapter describes their slow, idyllic lives: how they emerge from the soil in spring after a few days of sunshine; how they cruise through the dewy dawn, laying down roads of silvery slime, in search of tender herbage; how they explore the nearby world with their sensitive tentacles; how they glide over obstacles; how they retire into their shells when wind or heavy rain strikes their tender skins. "The snail is a peaceable creature," says Cadart. "Excesses of nature...
...completed until hot sunshine endangers the lives of both snails. But the effort is notably productive. Since snails are hermaphrodites, each of the participants becomes both a father and a mother. They lay their eggs (more than one-third of their total weight) in small hollows dug in loose soil. This slow-motion action may take about two days...
Obviously, in his first hour on Yugoslav soil, Khrushchev had badly overreached himself. Anxious lest any Westerners get the wrong ideas. Yugoslav officials spent the next two days buttonholing newsmen to announce how outraged, how embarrassed, how annoyed they were at what Khrushchev proposed...