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Biggest Ever. He did not, it seems, devote all his hours to metallurgy. Last week agents of the Brigade des Stupe-fiants-France's counterpart of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau-showed up at Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
...longtime crusade to get the Government off the farm and off the farmer's back, Charles B. Shuman (TIME cover, Sept. 3) has made more proposals than Tommy Manville. Farmer-president of the giant (1,677,820 members) American Farm Bureau Federation, largest and most influential U.S. farm organization, Shuman has almost invariably been ignored in Washington, where his call for a return to a free market in farm products is viewed as an invitation to chaos. Times are changing. Today, as the world's population threatens to outstrip its ability to pro duce food, many experts predict...
...billion Food for Peace program expires next year, he suggested, the U.S. should begin feeding hungry nations with farm products bought on the open market rather than with Government-owned surpluses. "If the market price is given the opportunity to respond to foreign aid demand," Shuman told the Farm Bureau's annual convention in Chicago, "it should be possible to discontinue the present control programs, and price supports could be used only as originally intended-to stabilize marketing, not to fix prices...
Under Shuman's plan, dubbed Marketing Food for Freedom, U.S. agricultural products would no longer be sold for "Mickey Mouse money," as Farm Bureau staffers call the soft currencies the U.S. takes in counterpart-fund payments for its food. Instead, the Government would buy food for foreign countries, give away 20% to the neediest and poorest nations, and distribute the remainder on credit to be paid off in dollars. His program, said Shuman, would eventually eliminate money spent on Food for Peace as well as the annual $3 billion subsidy doled out to farmers...
When the final figures for 1965 are in, the U.S. magazine industry will be almost sure to have recorded its first billion-dollar advertising year. According to statistics released by the Publishers Information Bureau, ad revenue for the first eleven months of 1965 reached $986,310,970, up almost 8% from the same period in 1964, the year that set the previous record: $997 million...