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...resident of Fort Washington, Pa., Smith is presently Chairman of the Board of the Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia. After receiving his LL.B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925, he practiced law in Philadelphia before serving in the Navy during World War II. He is a trustee of the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and a member of the Harvard Overseers' Committee on University Resources...
...vote against Freeman's program cut across all regional lines. Of the nation's top wheat-producing states-Kansas, North Dakota. Montana, Oklahoma and Washington-only North Dakota, with 65.8% in favor, even came close to giving Freeman a two-thirds majority. Among the so-called corn-belt states, those west of the Mississippi tended to favor the Freeman program, although not by two-thirds. In these states -Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska-the price of corn often follows the price of wheat. Many farmers plainly feared that lower wheat prices would pull down corn prices...
...taxes, spends ten times more per capita than Britain on such welfare state services as medical care and education for its citizens. It has been transformed by oil from a barren land of mud huts into a booming oasis of commerce, where trees are planted as casually as corn and once-desert land on its capital's outskirts goes for $500 a square yard. Kuwait has a peculiar kind of problem: it has so much money stashed away that it does not quite know what to do with...
...picking corn. He was watching. "It was not love at first sight," recalls Stuart Fuller-Sandys, 50, of his first glimpse of Margaret Dube, 22. "Love came later like a deluge." There was only one serious complication: she was black, and he was white. On the front pages of every Southern Rhodesia paper last week was the fairytale romance of the rich, widowed white rancher to the penniless darky daughter of one of his squatter tenants. It began in 1961, and had Pygmalion overtones. In his iron-roofed big house, Fuller-Sandys, like Henry Higgins, daily gave Margaret lessons...
...year 2020. As far off as that may seem, it is too close for the "Big W." Weyerhaeuser is now developing a revolutionary supertree that will be impervious to disease, perfectly shaped and full-grown in only 40 years. "We control the size of peas and the tenderness of corn," says a Weyerhaeuser scientist. "Why not a test-tube forest...