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...idle and somewhat sportive mood," the Des Moines Register's Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth wrote a few paragraphs last February inviting a Soviet farm delegation "to get the lowdown" on Iowa's prime products, corn and hogs. Moscow jumped at the offer, and Kansan Dwight Eisenhower soon endorsed the idea of exchanging farm visits...
Last week, still a bit astonished by it all, Editorialist Soth was off touring the U.S.S.R. with a group of Americans, while twelve Soviet agricultural bosses thrashed happily through Iowa's tall-corn country - shoulder deep in corn, hogs, hospitality and home cooking...
...Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
...rattled off a memorized greeting in Russian, and one delegate delivered a rehearsed speech in English: "Hello, my friends. I'm glad to see you. Here we are. Goodbye." At a Cedar Rapids luncheon, the Russian visitors almost jumped out of their shoes when 275 lowans, singing the Corn Song, suddenly raised their arms - a gesture resembling the party salute - to illustrate the song's last line: "That's where the tall corn grows!" Later the Russians learned the words, sang it themselves with gestures (but no clenched fist). At a cocktail party they passed up vodka...
...Eastman Kodak, asked thousands of questions. Eagerly they pounced on every new idea or machine for farming. They talked and acted like alchemists expecting to find at almost any moment the secret formula for Iowa's golden bounty, for the fat grain bins and seven-foot stands of corn, for the prosperous farms and happy people. They could not believe that most Iowa farmers work their quarter sections (160 acres) by and for themselves...