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...President sought; it may die in the Senate or be vetoed. Congress sent to Nixon an Administration farm bill, opposed by many farm-state Senators, which for the first time would limit subsidy payments to $55,000 a year to any individual farm for each of three basic crops: cotton, wheat and feed grains...
Pine Bluff (pop. 57,000) is Mid-America right out of Central Casting. There is a Main Street, an Elm Street, a kindly doctor and a lot of gossip. Things haven't changed very much since Sept. 2, 1918, when Arie Beall (pronounced Bell) and her cotton-broker second husband George had their only child, Martha. She went to private schools for six years, then to public schools when the Depression hit. She excelled at nothing, except perhaps having a good time. "I liked boys at an awful early age," she says, and in one of her high school annuals...
Eban said that there should also be scientific and educational cooperation between Arabs and Israelis, for example, "to share the lessons of Israel's cotton fertility...
...relations with China, Canada was pleasing a good customer. Since 1961, when Canada first began selling wheat to Peking, China has become the country's ninth largest trading partner. Exports during the first seven months of 1970 totaled $100,729,000. Because Canada buys little but peanuts and cotton pants in return, the trade accounted for an $89 million balance of payments surplus. It could grow larger if the Chinese would begin buying Canadian newsprint and potash. Trudeau, who visited China in 1960 with Jacques Hébert and co-authored a book called Two Innocents in China...
STANDING in the rain to collect their strike pay-$30 a week for a single man, $40 for a family-the strikers in their baggy cotton pants and frayed shirts evoked an image of the 1930s. The line stretched around the grimy headquarters of United Auto Workers Local 235 in Hamtramck, Mich. Occasionally, one of the men raised a clenched fist in salute, or another flashed a smile for photographers or a V-for-victory gesture, but mostly they were strangely silent. Across the street, pickets patrolled Chevrolet's gear and axle plant, carrying signs that proclaimed...