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...parity wheat grown for domestic food, while the rest of the crop (for livestock and for export) is supported at lower levels, or seeks its own price on the open market. By a margin of one vote it revived a two-parity formula that will raise support levels for corn, wheat, cotton and peanuts. The one-vote margin for the two-headed system came from West Virginia's new Democratic Senator William R. Laird III (see below), who had been sworn in just an hour before the roll call, and was casting his first vote...
...general manager, spry, 76-year-old William Godbold, Eastland is keenly aware that casual absentee ownership can never make a success of what is less of a plantation than an agricultural factory. Last year the Eastland plantation had about 1,900 acres in cotton, the remainder in corn, soybeans, oats, barley and pasturage. Under Eastland's close supervision, the land is cultivated according to the most scientific information available. Each spring, tractor-pulled applicators, straddling four rows at a time, inject seventy tons of anhydrous ammonia to the exact depth of 15 inches into the Eastland soil. Heavy plows...
...came to your house to spend a day or tew . . . From the phonograph at a dime store record counter another voice in another version lilted with a bouncy, corn pone accompaniment: If He came unexpected, I wonder whut...
...Bustin' Out All Over. The best performance in the picture, however, is given by Jacques d'Amboise of the New York City Ballet. He revives the tired style of dancing developed by Choreographer Agnes de Mille like a bucket of fresh water on a wilted stalk of corn...
...written with the advice of U.S. farm experts, makes many changes. Recognizing that one good solution is to get the landless mountain peasants onto fertile, government-owned lowlands (which can grow three crops of corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast...