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...basic causes of the American farm problem is the failure of agriculture to keep abreast of industry in research and development. Farmers have concentrated on learning how to increase their yields, leaving it up to the Government to worry about their surpluses, while hundreds of new industrial discoveries have pushed the farmer out of much of his market. Synthetics, for example, have taken over 45% of the market for natural fibers, 62% of the market for leather shoe soles, and two-thirds of the market for household soap. Last week, prompted by the recent report of the President...
...enduring European flavor is the motor scooter. Vespas and Lambrettas are noisily rampant on the streets of Rome and Venice, and so they are arriving in Cambridge in ever-increasing numbers. They not only attract attention, but impart that desirable note of devil-may-care hardiness when they come abreast complacent, insulated Buicks on Mass...
...cannot do. Encouraged by the "partnership" policy during the first Eisenhower term, long-dormant private companies have meshed with local public utilities since 1952 to open up new projects adding some 4,500,000 kw. to the Northwest power pool. But such projects are chiefly local, barely keep abreast of minimum needs...
...officers.... Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the nature and circumstances of the incident. Dr. Oppenheimer was approached by a friend, Prof. Haakon Chevalier, while he was director of the atomic research program at Los Alamos, who suggested that it might be a good idea to keep our Russian allies abreast of the progress of the research. He volunteered to help transmit such information "informally." This proposal was summarily rejected by Dr. Oppenheimer on the ground that any such suggestion would have to be implemented through appropriate governmental channels...
...West, Fla. last December, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was convalescing from his operation for intestinal cancer. It was some convalescence. Each day at 10 a.m. he was on the phone to the President and the State Department, keeping abreast of the Suez crisis and the U.S. efforts to keep the Russian "volunteers" out of the Middle East. At 11 o'clock he would knock off to lie on the beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant...