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Truman never changed. He had virtually no affectations, Clifford noted, and no inferiority complex. He viewed his days as a farmer as a blessing, a source of strength. In Truman's mind that put him on a par with his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, the aristocratic product of Groton, Yale and Harvard; not above, but certainly not below. They loved each other...
...have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next to a new Toyota. Thanks to an income of more than $18,000 last year, Chicken Farmer Sun Guiying had just become the first peasant in the 35-year history of the People's Republic to buy a private...
...firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous peasants by resorting to extortion or exploitation...
...Illinois." And out onstage came Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 49, making his singing debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Block strummed his guitar and crooned a little bit of Crying My Heart Out over You and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. America's top farmer was on key but had a little trouble keeping time with the Opry band. "I wonder how that fellow marched at West Point," said a listener. "To a different drummer," replied someone else. As for Block, he told the generally appreciative audience: "I'm so excited I could almost...
That single act, Touré would often say over the next quarter-century, was the proudest moment of his life. It also represented a high point for both Guinea and Touré, a son of a poor farmer who became the West African nation's first and only ruler. When Touré died last week at 62 in a Cleveland hospital, to which he had been rushed for treatment of a worsening heart condition, he left behind a record of thoroughgoing repression, oppression and tyranny that began to abate only a few years ago. Lamented France...