Word: hoping
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Farm Policy: Despite a year of bumper crops and rising prices, farmers west of the Mississippi do not generally credit Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson with their prosperity-in fact, quite the contrary. The farm vote, traditionally Republican, remains a real Democratic hope (TIME, Oct. 20). The best Republican hope is that Midwestern farmers will vote according to the jingle in their pockets on election...
...Fine Army Is Its Core; the Missile Is Its Hope...
...over imports was a satisfying feeling, even if the victory was apt to be temporary and was largely owed to the currently depressed price of raw materials. When the common market comes into being, however, they will be faced with a probable 29% duty on all English cars they hope to sell on the Continent. This duty is not higher than at present, but the difference is that German Volkswagens will sell in France, and Renault Dauphines in Germany, without paying such heavy duty...
Next morning the local post office is swamped with cables supporting the elephant man. The world's conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants...
...Herold sees it, what made Germaine unique was that "she sought essentially moderate goals by the most passionate means." She "exalted" love; yet "the goal was not the agonizing passion she knew but the quiet happiness that eluded her." She pursued ideals with equal passion, but always with the hope that she might "agree peacefully" with enthusiasts whose ideals were different. Thus, concludes Biographer Herold in one of the odd conclusions-of-the-month, Mme. de Staël's example is of immense value today in a world which is full of fanaticism and "mesmerized by the opposition...