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...River Valley is fertile soil for the seeds of discontent. There, in a densely overpopulated farmland whose every square mile must support 470 people, 80,000 field hands seek work on a puny 132,000 acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...
...Intellectual Wilderness." Dulles scribbled heavily at his doodle pad, his face beet-red, and Rhode Island's ancient (89) Theodore Francis Green suggested impatiently that Bill Fulbright was going far beyond the senatorial province of asking questions. Later Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey took up the Fulbright cause...
...fewer darted over-the-shoulder glances before opening a conversation. But the country's production has never been lower (except in wartime), and the harvest never looked worse. Farmers accustomed to work under the eye of the U.B. (security police) are leaving much of the potato and sugar-beet crop in ground this winter. Thousands of collective farms, no longer under police supervision, have been abandoned, their equipment and animals stolen as farmers hasten to rebuild their own farms. In a country which normally imports up to 1,500,000 tons of grain a year, and where the worker...
Currier & Ives. For, as Howard McGrath says, "the farther we get into the sticks, the bigger crowds we get." There was nothing synthetic about the crowd in Sidney, Mont., a sugar-beet, beans, sheep-feeding spot. As many as 500 people, some in jeans and cowboy boots, were at the tiny airport, really whooping it up. In the small communities like Sidney-all the way to Oregon-the Kefauver campaign, for all its chartered plane, portable Mimeograph, and closed-circuit telephone speech, has developed a refreshingly American-primitive quality. The beautiful little Oregon hamlets with their graceful maples, vivid green...
...will pay rich dividends. Grand Coulee irrigation water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...