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Miller's series, called Calhoun, was to be the story of a county agricultural agent engaged in a week-by-week struggle against boll weevils, nematodes, no-see-'ems, and other incorrigibles of the plains. Calhoun may have been a dog, but Miller's book is a vivid and often hilarious account of how TV's butchers can change any script into hamburger...
...system last week proved to be the last boll for the 93-year-old New Orleans Cotton Exchange, which closed its doors to trading. Because the price of cotton has been so firmly fixed, big dealers no longer have to go to the exchange to buy futures contracts to hedge against possible fluctuations. Futures trading on the New Orleans exchange dropped from 12 million bales a decade ago to only 18,000 last year. The exchange did not take its closing easily, planted full-page ads in many newspapers to attack the situation. After suggesting that Secretary of Agriculture Orville...
Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...
Timely Call. Why was President Kennedy so solicitous toward a relatively unknown Congressman? It happens that Burleson is leader of a loosely organized group of some 50 House Democrats, mainly Southern conservatives, who consider themselves an "economy bloc" -and are less reverently known as the "Boll Weevil Club." With Republicans in near unanimous support of spending limitations offered by House G.O.P. Policy Chairman John Byrnes of Wisconsin, the Boll Weevils clearly held the decisive votes. Kennedy's time on the telephone was well spent...
After the presidential phone call, Burleson's Boll Weevils met again, found they simply could not agree with Byrnes. "I don't like to call the amendment a phony," grumbled Burleson, "but it's a subterfuge-it will not do what it purports to do." Most of the Boll Weevils thereupon decided to vote against the Byrnes amendment...