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...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...
...that psychiatrists are on call around the clock for all Russians. Bantered Bulganin: "I don't know. They haven't had me examined that way yet!" After an hour of such empty pleasantries, Host Bohlen escorted B. & K. out through a pet project of Mrs. Bohlen-a corn patch in the embassy's backyard. Somewhat full of corn himself, Khrushchev stepped right amongst the stalks, plucked at the leaves, advised Hostess Bohlen cheerfully: "These leaves need thinning...
Prescription: Rest. Two hours and 85 miles later, the Chrysler pulled up at the Eisenhower farm at Gettysburg, Pa., to be greeted by Mamie's mother, Mrs. Elivera Doud. The farm looked sunny, warm, restful. Wild roses, day lilies and hollyhocks were abloom; the corn was knee-high. Tired from the trip, Ike lay down to rest in his oak-paneled, first-floor den. In a short while the Eisenhowers and their weekend guests, Walter Reed Hospital Commander Major General Leonard Heaton (who performed the ileitis operation) and Mrs. Heaton, were all soaking up an afternoon nap. A double...
...color TV; telephone companies buried millions of dollars worth of coaxial cable, engineered with TV in view, long before they had network customers. Monsanto tested 15,000 chemical compounds at its Creve Coeur, Mo. laboratories to find a herbicide that would kill weed grasses but not harm corn or soybeans, spent six years and $750,000 on the product, which has yet to be marketed...
...hatred he saw everywhere. He decided to do something about it "before total catastrophe overtakes both white and non-white societies." His plan: a society of all Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain requirements-a basic vote. Today, Capri corn's 5,000 members-about equally divided between colored and white-confine their work to the British lands between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn (the two Rhodesias and Nyasaland, Kenya and Tanganyika).* But they have designs on the whole continent...