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Ever since the election, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had looked forward to smooth plowing for his soil-bank program. He needed to rally the corn farmers to the program with more enthusiasm. And to do this, he was prepared to allocate considerably more acreage to the cornmen-though with a lower support price ($1.31 v. $1.36 a bu.)-if only the farmers would renounce the surplus-building system of the old acreage-allotment plan. Last week corn farmers put Benson's new plan to a vote. Result: in the 894 commercial corn counties in the U.S., cornmen stubbornly...
...Spanish times" where did the Mexican Indians get the bananas which, along with corn, they used to stuff their Xolo dogs and bring them to hoglike fatness [TIME...
Lucy and Desi will light up the tree for young Ricky's Christmas, George and Grade will spend Christmas in jail, and the rest of TV's regulars will deck their corn with holly for the holidays. There will also be a spate of special programs, promising, in all, a two-week cascade of goodies and not-so-goodies. Some of the most promising promises...
Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...
...Spanish times the Xolos were important to Mexican Indians in many different ways. Young ones could be stuffed with corn and bananas and brought to a hoglike fatness. Since the Indians had no other domestic animals except turkeys and ducks, the fat, hairless Xolo puppies were a leading source of meat. They were raised in large numbers, and a famous dog market near Mexico City sold as many as 400 a week. The Spanish clergy tried to suppress this traffic, with only gradual success. For many years the Spanish, too. appreciated roast Xolo. Mexico's famed painter Diego Rivera...