Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stultz's last words got cut off, and in the American cockpit the crew froze. "We thought he had bought the farm," says Moran [meaning that he had cracked up]. But Stultz came back on, called happily that he had spotted an air marker on a roof below. It told him that he was above Coeymans Hollow. Albany Tower, checking with state police, informed Captain Moran that Stultz was only 20 miles south of the field. Moran radioed...
...made sure that he would hit all the high spots. On the agenda: a White House state dinner, a day with Ike at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, a helicopter's-eye look at Gettysburg, an Ike-guided visit to the Eisenhower farm, dinner with Ike at the White House correspondents' dinner celebrating Eisenhower's 69th birthday. From Washington, López Mateos planned to go to Chicago, New York, the Canadian capital of Ottawa and then to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch on his way home...
...James Payson Dixon, 42, as 15th president of "study-plus-work" Antioch College (enrollment: 1,300) in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Physician Dixon succeeds Samuel B. Gould, who became the first chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara. A genial, rugged down-Easter, raised on a Maine farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia...
...industrial center of Wuhan, Mao and his satraps decided on their line of retreat. The communes would remain, but they would be "tidied up." Peasants would be "entitled" to money wages and eight hours' sleep a night, were even told that "individual trees around their houses, small farm tools, small instruments and small domestic animals and poultry" would no longer be taken from them. Red cadres were scolded for having been "overeager," and grimly warned to stop exaggerating production totals...
...raised the question of the crop supports that produce the U.S.'s whopping annual food surpluses, Benson was obliged to make some embarrassing qualifications about the free market and subsidized U.S. agriculture. But nobody in Poland doubted for a moment that Wladyslaw Gomulka would cheerfully exchange his own farm problem for Ezra Benson...