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Away from the coast, Venezuela is a varied land of goat-ridden droughtland, snowy peaks, Amazonian jungle and the lofty, remote eastern mesas where Sir Walter Raleigh looked for El Dorado. Bone-chilled peasants tend their flocks of goats on the slopes of a spur of the Andes; cowboys ride through the tough, chest-high grass of the llanos-Venezuela's central prairie-driving herds of bony cattle before them. In one of the few spots in Venezuela that are radically changed-a cooperative sugar farm on the estate of a Pérez Jiménez crony long...
Though subsidizing a government that has openly set out to break all historic ties with the U.S. is unpalatable, cutting the quota might spur such a reprisal as abrogating the treaty giving the U.S. the Guantanamo naval base, or might actually strengthen Castro's support by increasing anti-U.S. sentiment. Chairman Harold Cooley of the House Agriculture Committee would like to keep the quota law on a year-to-year basis. Another talked-of solution: a bill giving the President the authority to change quotas at will...
...Sydney, Australia, Arthur Sale was arrested after he lost $36 betting at Randwick race track, grabbed $1,226 from a bookmaker's bag at the track "on the spur of the moment...
...Killian said that a desire to reverse the "obsolescence and decay in our cities" helped spur the decision to build the Center...
...Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...