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...Smith, 57, last week was on his way back 'to the U.S. and a new assignment, after commanding the 1st Marine Division with distinction for seven bloody and glorious months in Korea (TIME, Sept. 25). The 1st's new boss was another fighter of the same "old breed": Major General Gerald C. Thomas, 56, who enlisted in the Corps in 1917, won a battlefield commission during World...
Like horseplayers, cockfighters are apt to defend their sport on the ground that they are "improving the breed." Their shoptalk is spiced with argument on the merits of reds, doms, warhorses, and other leading breeds. But the lure of the main time & again is not that academic; it is the vicarious thrill in a bloody contest that gives and asks no quarter...
Government is too often looked on a concentration in the morning's current events. This is true to a certain extent for those who want it that way. But there is always Friedrich on Plato or McClosky on the Supreme Court for the other breed, who are willing to pay for a more nourishing diet...
Hatch spent 18 years in Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time...
...eradicate barberry bushes in the wheat belt. Another is to hope that the weather will not be favorable for the fungus wintering in Texas. The Department of Agriculture, after taking a horrified look at the Race 156 situation, trusts neither of these methods. It is trying to breed wheat that can resist. By growing its new varieties in winter in the Imperial Valley, it gets two generations a year, speeds up the development process...