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...emphasis of U.S. agriculture were shifted from grain to livestock, and if Americans would increase their annual meat consumption (now about 145 lbs. per capita) by only 10 lbs. and drink 20 quarts more milk apiece a year, the experts believed the farm surpluses would fade away and the country would be a lot healthier. There was certainly a high demand for meat: cattle raisers get no subsidy and want none, and yet porterhouse was selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock...
...these hopes fade, said Dr. Wright, the U.S. can turn to enormous reserves of oil shale and phosphate rock that carry small percentages of uranium...
...case, South Korea's occasional similarities to a police state fade in comparison to the situation north of the 38th parallel. North Korea is, for all practical purposes, a Russian colony. Even the Chinese Communists have no representation in North Korea, and Mao Tse-tung's visage is conspicuous by its absence. Said a refugee North Korean major recently: "Russia, not Korea, is held up as the motherland. We don't even study Korean history in the schools there...
Above the Pulpit. As the days went by, even that hope began to fade. Local investigators seemed to be getting nowhere; the FBI was asked to send an agent from Washington to help. His arrival gave birth to a spate of rumors: the eyeballs of the dead guard were being flown to Washington because they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying...
...Professor & the Dump Heap. When the headlines fade away, it will probably be clear that Professor Owen Lattimore (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is neither a Russian spy nor a Communist, and that his accuser, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is an irresponsible demagogue. But the fact that Lattimore is no Soviet agent does not clear him of having had, in less dramatic ways, a disastrous influence on the foreign policy of his country...