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...impassioned critics of free and easy Philippine President Carlos Garcia is Congressman Sergio Osmeňa Jr.. 43, son of the wartime ex-President and himself a presidential prospect in next year's election. Last month, after Garcia vetoed a bill nationalizing the Chinese-dominated rice and corn distribution. Osmeňa loudly accused Garcia of taking a $5,000,000 bribe from Chiang Kai-shek to veto the bill, thereby protecting Chinese businessmen in the Philippines. Stung by the blast, Garcia replied: "If the people believe that, I should be impeached. But if the charge...
Billy's methods made the conventional odd jobs of Horatio Alger heroes seem sissified. He hung around barrooms waiting for drunks to come out fighting and perhaps lose some money for him to pick up; he parched stolen corn, swam to the Ohio shore and pushed back watermelons, set trotlines for catfish and trapped muskrats for the local doctor, who was an abortionist and fur dealer on the side. For a while he had as partner a deaf ex-moonshiner who had done a stretch in the pen, and from him he got a recipe for making corn likker...
...significant changes in components of our gross national product." The new industries on the rise, such as electronics and missiles, use comparatively little steel; thus some experts feel that the index statisticians lay too much emphasis on the steel industry. Some transistors, for example, smaller than a kernel of corn, sell for $200 to $300, or more than a ton of steel. And there is a shift in industries themselves. In Los Angeles, where aircraft-industry employment has dropped 12%, or nearly 3,000 workers a month, since last October, new jobs in electronics and missile fields boosted employment...
...ribbon highways trellis over swampy wastes, Freedomland opens next week. Billed as "the world's largest outdoor entertainment center," it rises out of a former garbage dump, is nothing less than a replica of the continental U.S.A., 833 yds. from parkway to shining parkway, with coconuts in Florida, corn in Iowa, and cash registers from Oregon to Maine...
Between seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...