Richard Critchfield
1. Nobel Prize for Dr. Borlaug
2. Djakarta: The First "Closed City"
2. Djakarta: The First "Closed City"
October 30, 1970
A few days ago I received a cable from the Washington Star asking me to write a story on this year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation and the distinguished plant geneticist who did much of the pioneering research that made Asia’s present "green revolution" of new seeds and fertilizer possible. "What’s it all about?" the cable ended.
A few days ago I received a cable from the Washington Star asking me to write a story on this year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation and the distinguished plant geneticist who did much of the pioneering research that made Asia’s present "green revolution" of new seeds and fertilizer possible. "What’s it all about?" the cable ended.

