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Last week, in a record-breaking turnout, Graham won a precarious victory. He polled 295,000 votes to 245,000 for Corporation Lawyer Willis Smith. But Robert R. .("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds and a pig breeder named Olla Ray Boyd had polled a total of 62,000 votes between them-enough to deny Graham a majority and to force a runoff next month if Smith demanded it. Smith probably would...
Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest, most influential U.S. farming families. It was only fair, the Secretary told Kline, that the federation let the Department of Agriculture explain its Brannan Plan before the delegates tried to pass judgment...
...chicken is merely the offspring of a mating between two different strains which have been carefully inbred for generations. This offspring inherits all the favorable characteristics of his purebred ancestors as well as a mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor": a phenomenal capacity for growth and performance. Actually, the breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw out 34,000 chicks from a carefully bred flock...
With the patient care of a scientific researcher gathering evidence, Professor Huxley reviews the enslavement of Soviet scientists. The test case is biology, his own science. He tells how, step by step, Trofim Lysenko, a "scientifically illiterate" plant-breeder, was enthroned as absolute boss of Soviet biology with all his opponents "dismissed or disgraced." Dr. Huxley knows Lysenko and considers him a better politician than a scientist. In conversations he found that Lysenko and his followers "simply do not talk the same language as Western men of science." Much of Professor Huxley's long article consists of quotations from...
...Madrazos, there are rewards far higher than this substantial income (about $162,000 a year). These rewards approach a peak when a breeder sees the carcass of one of his bulls being dragged around an arena, amid deafening oles, minus tail and ears, the tokens awarded to a matador for an especially glorious fight against an exceptionally fine bull. Says Don Pepe, hoisting his glass of manzanilla: "You feel, perhaps, that you've helped to create something noble, something brave, which knows how to die with greatness...