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Exploring this neglected part of the U.S. frontier with the help of diaries and a somewhat perfervid dramatic style, Paul Wellman, a novelist and historian of the West, has produced a lively account of a criminal empire which "exerted an influence of bale and woe for a full generation and held all of interior America in a web of terror...
Home showed soon enough who was running the Foreign Office. He impressed its clannish professionals with his industry and quick grasp of issues, delighted many others with his laconic wit. When an aide sent him a bale of documents with the note, "The Secretary of State will be interested in reading this," Home sent back the bundle with the reply: "A kind thought, but entirely erroneous. Please abstract." From the outset he adopted a show-me attitude to the Russians that was notably tougher than Macmillan's conciliatory approach. When Soviet fighters threatened Allied traffic in the Berlin...
...Tuscumbia is bursting with new heavy industry, while southeast is Guntersville, a thriving resort area that features fine fishing, sailing and impressive scenery. There, too, along the Tennessee River, is a splendid rolling countryside and good red earth that produces much of Alabama's annual 700,000-bale cotton crop...
...supposed to remedy-overproduction and rural poverty. A support price that is high enough to cover the production costs of a small-scale, inefficient farmer provides a glorious opportunity for risk-free profit to the large-scale, efficient farmer with his much lower costs of production per bushel or bale. The support price of corn, for example, is $1.25 a bushel, and the big producer can grow corn for less than 70? a bushel. Clearly, if the Government takes the stuff off his hands at $1.25, the efficient farmer can reap a bumper crop of money from growing corn that...
This year Balliol (pronounced BALE-yul) is seven centuries old, and it celebrated the birthday in a flurry of skyrockets, French cuisine and champagne toasts. On hand were 2,000 Balliol graduates (Prime Minister Macmillan excused himself to dine with J.F.K.) from Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to King Olaf of Norway and Boston Financier William Appleton Coolidge. Whether or not Balliol really was 700-an agreed age more than a historic fact-they cheerily drank the ancient toast, Floreat dornus de Balliolo, meaning roughly, boola, boola Balliol...