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...Senate plunged into a debate on the Bricker amendment. Soon over their heads and caught in the crosscurrents of Supreme Court decisions such as Missouri v. Holland and U.S. v. Pink, the Senators tried to thrash their way to familiar ground. For many, this effort led toward the barnyard...
...Cover) Reminiscing last week about the job that took him to the White House. Harry Truman told a piece of personal history in homely barnyard simile: "I tried to argue with those fellows at Chicago [in 1944] that I didn't want to be Vice Pres ident. I told them, 'Look at all the Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over...
...main trends of the year, non-fiction outsold fiction, children's books had a boom (notwithstanding their dully predictable tendency to preach good behavior in barnyard parables), and a lot of good reading continued to turn up more or less unheralded. Finally, for the second year in a row, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible sold more than 1,000,000 copies, to lead all other current books...
...anchored in such sterling virtues as playing the game, bearing the white man's burden, and being kind to animals. To prevent shortsighted swallows from colliding with overhead wires, for exampie, bird lovers festoon the telegraph lines with wooden bobbins, visible a mile away. Last week the lowly barnyard hen was the object of tender British solicitude...
...plump hen (see cut). Once enclosed in a battery with the light burning 18 hours a day (to encourage overtime), a hen spends the rest of its life (about nine months) eating, sleeping and laying standard-size eggs. Battery hens average 190 eggs a year, their free-roaming barnyard rivals 30 to 40 less...