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...Barnyard Battle Plans. Bonduel was no isolated incident. It was one result of a militant livestock-farmers' crusade unleashed on Aug. 19 by the National Farmers Organization (estimated membership: 100,000) in 23 states. Hatched by N.F.O. President Oren Lee Staley, 41, onetime Missouri farmer turned big-league farm organizer, the scheme called for thousands of livestock men to withhold their products in a massive market boycott that would eventually boost meat prices all over the U.S. Then, as Staley planned it, he would negotiate longterm, high-priced contracts with meat packers on behalf of legions of farmers. Staley...
With Joseph in tow, Meg descends next on a Kansas cow college, where even French is taught with a barnyard accent. Joseph gets blackballed after she tries to bribe a fraternity with a bagful of Popsicles; when he goes out on a date, she chases after him in a police car. His only release from maternal smotheration comes when Meg is mustering new men friends in the hotel...
...Russia's withdrawal of aid in 1960 and the U.S.-Soviet nuclear test ban treaty. "Russia broke its agreements and pulled out its technicians in 24 hours, taking all their blueprints with them," Mao said. He denounced the treaty as a "swindle concluded behind our backs." Using barnyard idiom, he raged that Russia and the U.S. should not be allowed to defecate "on our heads." When his prim young interpreter hesitated in translation, Mao ordered: "Go ahead, say it. That might shock you, but it's the truth...
...fact that Russia harvests less than the U.S., though it cultivates twice as much farm land, Khrushchev insists: "Yields don't depend upon the system. It's merely a matter of the U.S.'s producing more mineral fertilizer." Fertilizer, for so long the essential ingredient of barnyard humor, has become a vital factor in the economic cold war, and Khrushchev has launched a costly crash program to quadruple Russia's output of plant food...
...heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct: the aboriginal Tory, John Bull in his own barnyard...