AGRICULTURE: Battling the Surplus Bulge

Into Bangkok last week to star in an all-cotton fashion show and present two high-style cotton dresses to Thailand's Queen Sirikit flew the U.S.A.'s 1959 Maid of Cotton, pretty, blue-eyed, brunette Malinda Diggs Berry, 21-year-old Oklahoma State University coed. Like a debutante on a grand tour, Malinda arrived with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat the same act in...

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