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...wife moved to the valley, now harvests about 14 tons of potatoes per acre (v. average U.S. yield of eight tons per acre), grows cabbages the size of medicine balls. Another farmer, Wyoming-born Victor Falk, 64, owns 900 acres on the Matanuska River, is raising hogs (1959 target: 700), the first hog yield to be fed on grain stored in the new elevator of the booming ($6,000,000 a year) Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperating Association. Says Falk: "You can make a living here with the line of least resistance. You can trap, hunt and fish; you can raise...
...Yule Hog. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Audrey Lenz, 24, sued for divorce, charged that her three children had to depend on the St. Vincent de Paul Society for Christmas presents, while her husband, John, 28 bought himself an electric train...
Along with revived energy, the President has suddenly come to feel at home with his big and little political powers. Never before has he used his veto weapon with such telling effect as in his refusal to sign the recent whole-hog rivers and harbors pork barrel (TIME, April 28) and the Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead...
...Danes, far from being melancholy, are "the Bob Hopes of Europe." The French, they are a funny race, according to Fielding, with a schizophrenic "conflict between generosity and niggardliness, idealism and cynicism, fieriness and apathy, gaiety and shrewdness." Fielding can be rough on Americans, too. He lashes out at "hog-mannered U.S. drugstore-cowboys," warns U.S. matrons with chassis by Hokinson: "Don't take slacks or shorts, unless you have a figure like Gypsy Rose Lee's. On fat or plump women, Europeans hate...
...appears that the real issue of the Kohler strike in Sheboygan, Wis. [March 17] is finally coming to light. Does a man still possess the right to manage his own business, or must he and his management become hog-tied in the pull of the myriad strings that encumber thousands of businesses today and terminate in the executive offices of the labor trust? Unions are wielding much more power today than they should be wielding...