Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peking's Hopes. The talks began in Washington, shifted to Ike's farm in Gettysburg, then back to Washington, lasting in all more than 14 hours. Laced into the discussions was some small talk, ranging from Nehru's interest in Ike's painting (and Ike's enthusiasm for the works of Grandma Moses) to Ike's short lecture, during a brief inspection of his property, on the problems of cattle breeding, which seemed to leave the Prime Minister singularly unexcited. What surprised Ike most was that Nehru, in private, dropped his customary tendency toward...
...three planeloads of food. Hokkaido's farmers face both hunger and bankruptcy. "We've sold even the gold from our teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing we've left to sell is our daughter." It was not a joke. Many a farm family, in desperate need, has returned to the old but recently outlawed custom of selling off a daughter to some enterprising brothel keeper in exchange for ready cash. So far this year, the Hokkaido prefectural police headquarters reported, 1,454 girls have been sold to restaurants, brothels and geisha houses...
...goods to resell in black markets. Commissary sales last year were double the entire miners' payroll, and the subsidies amounted to 77% of the cost of running the mines. On the land, the once-productive big estates became little more than the kitchen gardens of their new owners. Farm output fell off 40%. Oil exports have begun, but still amount only to a trickle...
...last week, as he neared the end of his studies for a degree in dairy husbandry. Falk, now 21, figured he would have about $30,000 to buy a farm for himself and his bride, Coed Arlene Plotkin of Milwaukee. The only sour note in his academic career: the near-failing he received in a course on real estate...
...reborn and cast in a different mold-more tolerant, more kindly, more reflective than before. Says Stuart: "My world had been a thousand friends in a hundred cities, ten cups of coffee and loud talk until three in the morning. Now my world was reduced to my home, my farm, my hills. I lived more closely with my wife, my daughter, my animal friends. I thought more deeply of my God." And implicit in the book is the strongly held feeling that the close brush with death was well worth the cost...