Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henty was Blackstone. He learned that preparation for a case is 90% of success. (One of the things that makes his current Senate investigation stand out is its painstaking preparation.) As his father got busier, teen-age John was virtually in sole charge of a 75-acre farm, but he still found time to study his lawbooks. In the law he seemed to find something otherwise missing from most of his life. Says one observer: "His father was a lawyer-and his only mother...
...situations" in the local bureaucracy, and in Peking emboldened students called for the withdrawal of the Communist control group in Peking University. (This development so unnerved the university's dean that he threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent a day as a fish porter-a sight which, according to Radio Peking, "greatly inspired...
Zoli can claim the distinction of being one of the first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest...
Scared to Death. Easygoing Ernie grew up on a small farm near Bristol, a town (pop. 40,000) lying half in Virginia and half in Tennessee. There he ploughed tobacco rows, hunted coons and went cat-fishing. Occasionally the sheriff would ask him and his mother to come down to the jail and sing hymns to the prisoners. At 18 he was a $10-a-week announcer on a local station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks...
...basic causes of the American farm problem is the failure of agriculture to keep abreast of industry in research and development. Farmers have concentrated on learning how to increase their yields, leaving it up to the Government to worry about their surpluses, while hundreds of new industrial discoveries have pushed the farmer out of much of his market. Synthetics, for example, have taken over 45% of the market for natural fibers, 62% of the market for leather shoe soles, and two-thirds of the market for household soap. Last week, prompted by the recent report of the President...