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...circle," said Iowa Farmer John Hilbert to Pollster Samuel Lubell. Farmer Hilbert's gloomy, no-way-out tone was typical of what seasoned Listener Lubell found on a seven-week trip through farm country in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Lubell's basic finding: the Midwest's farmers, who once had firm opinions about federal price-support programs, are now as baffled by the massive, $7 billion-a-year farm-glut scandal as the experts, the Eisenhower Administration and Congress (TIME, March 2). "Not a single farmer," Lubell reported last week for United Feature Syndicate...
What all this will mean to the French economy was spelled out not long ago by Jacques Soustelle. Said he: "Metropolitan France now consumes more than 20 million tons of oil a year. This was the basic factor that for years brought our trade balance into the red. When in five or six years consumption reaches the 36 million-ton level, we will be able to pump between 30 and 50 million tons out of the Sahara...
...with his own money, Tijerina launched two tuition-free "Little Schools of 400" in the neighboring towns of Ganado and Edna near Houston. Purpose: to teach 400 words of basic English to 42 five-year-olds, all of whom spoke Spanish only. After 3½ months the "graduates" entered first grade in the town's public schools-where more than half the Mexican-American first-graders had failed the year before-and all passed with flying colors...
...hard-driving businessman, Price has transformed the prefab from a poor cousin into a respectable member of the housing family. To rid the prefab of the boxy, cheap look and boring sameness that once plagued it, he has hired top architects to give his houses style, turns out four basic models in 600 different variations ranging from a three-bedroom $7.900 home to a $150,000 custom-built one. Price also has another valuable asset: his brother George, National's president and a hardselling salesman who travels four business days out of five...
...State Department have not always been so alert to protect the interests of U.S. flag lines. When Great Britain and the U.S. laid down the basic postwar air route pattern in Bermuda in 1946, the U.S. was the only nation equipped with planes to operate long-distance service. It campaigned for a free competition agreement, but the plane-short British forced a compromise that provided for an equitable exchange of traffic between nations signing a bilateral pact. Since then the U.S. has often ignored breaches by foreign airlines, drawn criticism from U.S. carriers for giving out fat new routes without...