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...acre hacienda, in their off-hours tend their own tiny holdings. Tomor is trying to help the campesinos raise poultry. He has shown them how to build a chicken house of wire, wood and burlap and a brooder of wood slats, wire and an old barrel. Formerly, only one of every two San Manuel chicks survived; 49 of 50 chicks that Tomor is raising in a brooder have thrived. Now Tomor hopes to crossbreed good-laying Leghorns with the Rhode Island Reds that lay the brown eggs preferred by Chilean wives. Says Schoolmaster Sandoval Córdoba: "Do you believe...
...other farming fields were far less productive. Around Aroostook, Me., because of oversupply, growers are getting $1.15 per barrel for potatoes that cost $2 to produce. "It's the worst I've ever seen," said one shipper. In Vermont, Dairy Farmer Harry R. Varney Jr. logged the worst year in seven for his 50-cow herd. Said Varney: "My investment is about $75,000, and it seems to me a man should be able to make about t $300 a month to live on and about 5% return on his investment. But I won't make that...
...Kennedy in the Southwest. No sooner had he taken over his Cabinet office than he allowed as how Democratic Congressmen had better go along with the Kennedy Administration's effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee or lose their bite at the Interior Department's pork-barrel appropriations; this sort of talk annoyed all kinds of Congressmen. Next, Udall sent out a letter to oil and gas men, many of whom were doing business with the Interior Department, dunning them for contributions to a Democratic fundraising dinner; for this, President Kennedy found it necessary to rebuke Udall...
...Down the Barrel. Despite all this, escapes to the West continue, and so, south from Travemunde, Ulbricht's work gangs are laboring hard to close the remaining gaps in the new wall. At the West German town of Schlutup, a legal crossing point, the East Germans have put on a friendly face for tourists driving into East Germany from Scandinavia. No barbed wire is visible, and the armed guards are stationed some 400 yds. beyond the border. A few yards across the line from Schlutup in East Germany actually lives a West German family. Two young boys wearing soldier...
...stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped with a posthole digger is busily planting holes every dozen feet. As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier...