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Hardly had Hubert Horatio Humphrey been nominated as the Democratic candidate for Vice President than he managed to put his foot in it. During a weekend campaign-strategy-planning trip to the L.B.J. Ranch in Texas, Hubert was summoned by the President for a walk in a cow pasture. He promptly slipped on some cow dung, but recovering his balance, cried out: "Mr. President! I just stepped on the Republican platform...
With Joseph in tow, Meg descends next on a Kansas cow college, where even French is taught with a barnyard accent. Joseph gets blackballed after she tries to bribe a fraternity with a bagful of Popsicles; when he goes out on a date, she chases after him in a police car. His only release from maternal smotheration comes when Meg is mustering new men friends in the hotel...
...promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share of the land, thus assuring the eventual breakdown of the huge estancias...
...party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers. It is a feeling that surfaced during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign and exploded after his run for the California governorship. It was dramatically reflected in the uproar in the San Francisco Cow Palace last month when Dwight Eisenhower jabbed at "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators...
...southern Mozambique, into which Portugal hopes to lure 1,000 immigrant families from the homeland, as well as 500 more from Mozambique itself. Each new farmer will receive up to 25 acres of irrigated land, a new house, furniture and tools, as well as two bullocks, a milk cow, two pigs, five chickens and a rooster. The 14-village project serves two purposes: it takes the pressure off the government at home, where poverty and discontent are mounting, and it strengthens Mozambique's white population against the day when the "freedom fighters" decide to move...