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Pigs & Digs. For Kukuruznik (corn man) Khrushchev, the big treat of the week was his trip to Iowa for an inspection of advanced farming practices, corn and beef production near Coon Rapids. His host: crag-faced, cranky Millionaire Roswell Garst, who has been to Russia twice to sell corn seed to the U.S.S.R. There amid the alien corn the Premier of the U.S.S.R., Garst, and the tenuous U.S.-Soviet relations nearly got trampled for good under a 300-man brigade of shouting, shoving newsmen (see PRESS...
Khrushchev happily drove on. At Ames, where he toured the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, he was at his bubbling best. More and more, as tensions slacked, he made Brahmin-born Cabot Lodge his straight man. Said he in a hog barn: "In all his life, Mr. Lodge probably hasn't taken in as many smells as today." When it came time for the predictable message, Khrushchev was, as always, prepared: "These Soviet and American pigs can coexist-why then can't our nations coexist as well? . . . If I may say something in a joking...
...When Iowa Farmer Roswell Garst invited him to meet Nikita Khrushchev at his Coon Rapids farm, Stevenson accepted with pleasure. Under the protecting shade of a canvas canopy, the Soviet Premier and the two-time Democratic presidential candidate chatted amiably through lunch. Inevitably, their conversation turned from cold war to hot politics. Afterward, recounting it to the press and TV, Khrushchev turned to Stevenson. "Can I repeat that little conversation?" he asked. "It won't reveal any secret?" Replied Adlai, with a big grin: "You are at liberty to reveal my deepest secret." Said Khrushchev: "Mr. Stevenson said that...
...Francisco was only a rehearsal. The big show came in Coon Rapids, Iowa, where Millionaire Farmer Roswell Garst, who enjoys the glare of publicity, had invited the full herd of newsmen down to the farm. Apparently confident that he was dealing with orderly men, Farmer Garst issued eight pages of agricultural information to the press (sample: "When corn is down to 30% moisture, it has reached maximum dry weight") that was totally silent on the subject of reportorial conduct. The moment they set foot on Garst property, the newsmen turned it into a battleground...
Commanded by Iowa-born Captain Robert A. Phillips, 53, Namru-2 is a mobile, down-to-earth outfit which operates on the premise that more fighting men have been felled by disease than by broadsword or bomb. Its primary mission is to secure medical knowledge of potential military significance. In the process, it helps protect and improve the health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes...