Word: iowa
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Leading the Pennsylvanians are 6-5 Bart Leach, 6-4 Joe Sturgis, and 5-11 Karl Hoagland. Last year, Penn defeated the Crimson 87-46, and 92-73. Included among its victims this season are Purdue, Navy, Iowa, and Michigan State...
After World War II, however, the Farm Bureau began to have second thoughts. In 1947, when aging Ed O'Neal retired, the strongest farm lobby in the U.S. replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President...
...assigned to fly with the U.S. Air Force in Korea, was shot down over North Korea on Dec. 5, 1952, and taken to a jail in Mukden. There the Chinese held three U.S. fliers (none of them listed among the eleven convicted airmen): Captain Harold Fischer of Swea City, Iowa, Lieut. Lyle Cameron of Lincoln, Neb. and Lieut. Roland Parks of Omaha. MacKenzie said that he corresponded later with a fourth U.S. pilot, Colonel Edwin Heller of Philadelphia, who was in a Chinese hospital recovering from leg wounds...
...best show of the week was Ralph Edwards' usually saccharine This Is Your Life (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC). His candidate for TV biography: Dr. Laurence Jones, a 60-year-old Negro educator of great and good-humored dignity. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Jones traveled to the Mississippi backwoods in 1909 and set up a school for Negro children in a district where none had ever existed. A local Negro carpenter gave him a roof by donating some land and fixing up a ramshackle sheep pen on a corner of the property. Today the Piney Woods Country...
...four, named by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., were Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 25, of Lincoln, Neb., shot down while on an armed reconnaissance flight over North Korea, and Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., Captain Harold E. Fischer. 29, of Swea City, Iowa, and Lieut. Roland W. Parks, 25, of Omaha, all downed while on combat missions over North Korea. The General Assembly resolution last week called for action on all 15 uniformed men (but it did not cover two U.S. civilians also captured by the Chinese and sentenced on spying charges...