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...have had more cows' tails wrapped around my ears in fly time than any other Senator." boasted North Dakota's Milton Young. "I am sure that I have custom-threshed more hours than all the rest of the members put together, and no doubt spike-pitched more hours than any other Senator. I doubt if more than a dozen members of the Senate even know what spike-pitching means." Other Senators might indeed be less knowing than Wheat Farmer Young about custom-threshing and spike-pitching.-But they did know plenty about the wants and needs...
...over Scotland's Renfrew Airfield, a 7-oz. plover with Kamikaze tendencies flew head-on into a London-bound British European Airways Dakota and brought the big aircraft to earth for repairs. In Suffolk, meanwhile, an armed task force of 100 British countrymen so far forgot their sporting instincts as to go after rapidly multiplying British foxes with guns...
...Patel is 74 and suffering from a weak heart. Last week he flew to breezy Bombay in a specially pressurized Dakota, to rest and recuperate. No one knows when & if he will return. In New Delhi, 25 leading pandits began an eleven-day yagna (sacred ritual prayer session) for Patel's early recovery. It was a prayer echoed by many an Indian for his country's future...
...Thompson has been a newspaperman since he was 19 years old. He grew up in St. Thomas, N. Dak. (pop. 503), made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Dakota, and became editor of the weekly Foster County (N. Dak.) Independent. Later, moving to the Milwaukee Journal, he filled all the jobs from reporter through picture editor to assistant news editor...
Great Discomfort. The opposition was represented by three points of view. First there were the hard-shelled isolationists like North Dakota's William Langer. They had a surprising ally in elderly, mustached Ralph Flanders of Vermont, a longtime internationalist. He thought the pact did not go far enough; he wanted to turn it into a rejuvenated U.N., equipped with its own international police force. Senator Flanders was convinced that the Politburo had set out to ruin us economically . . . by a "budgetary ambush," forcing the U.S. into a bankrupting arms race...