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...LITTLE WHITE TELEPHONE ON YOUR DESK AND CALL EZRA BENSON AND TELL HIM: "EZRA, YOU'RE THROUGH." But the head of the nation's biggest (1,623,000 families) farm organization, President Charles B. Shuman of the American Farm Bureau Federation, held firm against the bill. Illinois Corn-Cattle Fanner Shuman called it "utterly bad legislation-representing a strictly political approach to a very serious-economic problem...
...Wish." From the first ambush, the Israeli army and police played a grisly game of hide-and-seek with the infiltrators. Clues were stiffening bodies, blown-up irrigation pipes, wrecked rail lines, burnt-out cars and trucks-a trail of death running between the fields of ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees...
...into other phases of Soviet agriculture. He was largely responsible for a costly and disastrous experiment with forest-belt planting. His notions about crop rotation cost the country in one season as much grain as would have been produced by 6,000,000 acres. He refused to introduce hybrid corn, the most spectacular practical achievement of Western plant genetics. The blight of Lysenkoism even touched far-distant sciences, including chemistry and physics, where Marxist dogmatists denounced useful and well-proved principles as tainted with Western error...
...Stalin. His critics began speaking up, and got away with it. Early in 1954 one of his proteges was denounced in Pravda itself. Genetics of true scientific type began to be taught and used again. When Soviet agriculturists visited the U.S. last summer, they were enormously impressed by hybrid corn and ordered carloads of seed...
...arteries hindering the normal flow of blood. This fatty lining has been found in the atreries of nine out of ten monkeys fed on a carefully regulated diet consisting chiefly of saturated fats such as are found in butter, Spry or Crisco in contrast to the unsaturated fats in corn or olive...