Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union report ("good"-with qualifications) and the budget (see below) were well roughed out before the President left Washington for his work-and-rest vacation (highlighted by granddaughter Susan's sixth birthday and a quiet New Year's Eve gathering with the John Eisenhowers, the Jim Hagertys, Farm Manager Arthur Nevins and Mrs. Nevins). But, as usual, there were final details to be decided. To Gettysburg came couriers carrying freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound...
...Congress to face up to some of its budget-cutting responsibilities. Among the possibilities: cut down on certain veterans' pensions in line with the recommendations of a 1956 commission chaired by Five Star General Omar Bradley; let the $500 million-a-year acreage reserve portion of the farm soil bank program lapse without renewal; reduce the federal share of contributions to public assistance payments (e.g., medical care and old-age allotments); and end federal spending in the fields of vocational education and such minor federal programs as water pollution control...
...modern economy (TIME, Dec. 9), the Russians have set out to make India the showpiece of their Asian aid program. Out of the 1955 Bulganin-Khrushchev visit, India got one of Russia's rare outright gifts: $1,500,000 worth of agricultural equipment for a state-operated mechanized farm. More important, capital-starved India has also received $270 million in Soviet credits, nearly half of it earmarked for the Russian-designed Bhilai steel plant, which is being built under the supervision of Soviet technicians. Though it is only one of four foreign-financed steel mills currently under construction...
...government officials, Danilo Dolci's methods for helping the poor of Sicily have always been embarrassingly direct. Sicilians were hungry, so Social Worker Dolci became a hunger striker. When they were sick, he converted a three-room apartment into a clinic. To give jobs to jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo...
Antonietta's husband, a farm laborer and Communist sympathizer, was skeptical. For four days crowds flooded into Syracuse while, according to many accounts, the Madonna continued to weep. Said a doubter: "I took the statue from the wall and found the wall behind it dry. I unscrewed the statue from its base and thoroughly dried it. Then two tears, like pearls, began to appear in the eyes of the Madonna." The Syracuse police force added its weight to the evidence. When the figure was removed to headquarters, its tears were said to have wet the tunic of the policeman...