Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he would probably accept an invitation from Farmer-Businessman Roswell Garst to visit his corn farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. Explained Garst, who met Khrushchev on a trip to the U.S.S.R.: "He's primarily interested in raising corn so that Russia can raise more livestock. And we know how to raise corn...
...uneasy about the surplus mess, but they are so wary of drastic measures to cope with it that most farmers "prefer to drift along with things as they are," bad as they are. "I don't like farming for the Government," admitted a troubled Minnesota wheat farmer. "I know it's wrong. But it's not for me to figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell, are "waiting...
...with a grin as broad as the arc of a peasant's scythe. Even his normally glum interpreters, press officers and sword-bearers were smilingly cordial. For questioners, Khrushchev had a full armory of chuckles, solemnities and playful jabs. Did he expect to address Congress? "I do not know whether the U.S. Congressmen want to listen to me . . ." When the A.P.'s Preston Grover asked if Eisenhower would be invited to visit Soviet missile bases, Khrushchev turned on him as if the reporter were some baneful survivor of a forgotten era: "If I was talking with the President...
Snapped the Evening News: "Sentries have been tormented-there is no other word for it-by visitors who should know better." "Are guards to fall in line as tourist attractions along with Swiss yodelers and Indian snake charmers?" demanded the News Chronicle. The Daily Sketch, hinting that the "American Mom" had got exactly what she deserved, asked: "Why should our soldiers have to put up with this kind of treatment?" At week's end there was desperate talk of a reinforcement of extra bobbies to guard the guards who guard the palace...
Today Soustelle insists that he is not anti-American. "I am one of France's few public men who know the U.S., who speak English, who read the books and magazines. But I am pro-French! Excuse me, but I ami" He is outspokenly resentful of the U.S. refusal to support France in Algeria. "The Americans." he declared early last year, "treat their friends as enemies and their enemies as friends...