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...archeologists have been looking with renewed diligence for more. Seventeen months ago, in a cave at Wadi Qumran, in Jordan, a band of diggers found a stone writing table almost 2,000 years old, and strewn about it scraps of leather and papyrus, enough to fill several bushel baskets. The Hebrew script on the papyrus was minuscule,'and many fragments could be read only with the help of an infrared camera. But the texts, when examined, turned out to cover almost half of the Old Testament. Their date, from...
President Eisenhower reached under a bushel last week for a new supreme commander of U.S. and U.N. forces in the Far East. To replace General Mark Clark, who is retiring from the Army on Oct. 30, he selected able but little-known four-star General John Edwin Hull...
...Vote for Less? Everywhere, the farmers' reasons for voting yes were basically the same: a yes vote meant a support price of $2.20 a bushel with quotas; a no vote meant $1.20 without them. In Washington, Ind., where Daviess County farmers marked ballots in the stone courthouse, windburned Norman Lawyer (who has 136 acres of wheat) asked a basic question: "Why should any farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell...
...least in part to the nation's preoccupation with the bulging waistline (see BUSINESS). In 1910, U.S. citizens used an average of 211 Ibs. of wheat flour apiece. In 1952, they used only 130 Ibs. So far this year, shipments abroad have fallen more than 100 million bushels below the same period of last year. Chief reasons: 1) shortages created by World War II have largely abated; 2) wheat-hungry nations do not have enough dollars to buy American wheat; and 3) the Government-supported price of U.S. wheat is about 40? a bushel above the world market price...
...Agriculture Department officials and farm leaders were predicting that more than two-thirds of the farmers will vote yes. Said Farmer Lynn Wallen of Nebraska's Red Willow County: "I can't see any reason why wheat farmers should ever vote for $1.20 and against $2.20 a bushel...