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...Interests. Cutting across all party lines are the special interests, which flourish in a body where a government's very life depends on the swing of 10 or 20 votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer...
French agriculture lags behind. Surrounded by protective tariffs, quotas and subsidies, French farmers are indulging in the luxury of concentrating on crops with which France is surfeited (e.g., beet root and grapes), while avoiding the very foodstuffs (e.g., meat and butter) which Frenchmen need most and can least afford to buy. Still, most Frenchmen contrive to eat well, choosing to spend a large part of their income on food...
Dollars & Pounds. On hand to greet the guests last week was a beet-faced, ramrod-straight 58-year-old named Sir Eric Bowater. Having already built a small family business into a colossus, Sir Eric decided seven years ago that he could better serve his many U.S. customers (biggest: Scripps-Howard) with a U.S. mill. He decided on Calhoun because it has plenty of water, good transportation and access to vast supplies of southern pine, which has a growth cycle of only 25 years, v. 75 years for northern spruce...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, TIME [April 5] says: "He spent summers picking mangel-wurzels." This evokes a picture of long summer days spent gathering something resembling scuppernongs. Does TIME imagine that mangel-wurzels grow on trees, or on vines? A mangel-wurzel is a variety of beet, only larger and considerably less tasty, grown as a cattle food. A mangel-wurzel is a stubborn root that parts company with the earth only after a vigorous tussle, and I don't envy Rab Butler his summer, even though he was paid 8? an hour...
...Many who voted for Stevenson told me that they were glad Ike was in, and that Stevenson would have been a mistake. I would hesitate to say that all Republicans enjoy the same popularity. From Ohio to Wyoming, straight across the farm belt, among corn, hogs, soybean, alfalfa, wheat, beet and cattle men, I heard Ike praised, and the men around Ike, as well as the Republican Party itself, blamed for going back on promises to the farmers. Farmers and ranchers everywhere told me that Ike had made specific promises in his campaign speeches to them that he would keep...