Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diem allowance. Trim, reserved Bill Draper is a thoroughgoing professional, a World War II Air Corps transport pilot flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas, 39, veteran of the Hump and Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent Puglisi, 41. Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers, a radio operator and three...
...toward tighter controls. The Illinois Farm Bureau, biggest in the nation, voted for an unprecedented plan of compulsory acreage retirement, a sort of unsubsidized soil bank, plus a subsidy-in-kind scheme that would hand out Government-owned surplus grain to farmers who grow even less than their allowances. Iowa farmers leaned in the same general direction, set the stage for a rough-and-tumble battle at the American Farm Bureau convention in Chicago next week. Though none of the farm organizations brought forth really promising ideas, ground was broken by the realization that, as Kansan Boone put it, "there...
...Pravda has come to print an occasional dissident word. Last week it not only published the text of U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's speech before the National Foreign Trade Council but reprinted from U.S. News & World Report an interview with Iowa Corn Farmer Roswell Garst, who played host to Khrushchev during the Soviet Chairman's U.S. visit last September. Garst's frank talk about Russian agriculture (still primitive by U.S. standards) and Khrushchev (rough, tough and cruel, but "not all black") got by untouched...
...office in the dank cellar of the century-old athletic building, a boyish-faced man answers. On the other end of the line may be one of the most renowned coaches in college football-perhaps Northwestern's Ara Parseghian, or Louisiana State's Paul Dietzel, or Iowa's Forest Evashevski. They want advice...
...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...