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Benson's successor will also have to drop the old assumption that the years of lean harvests come along and reduce the burdensome surpluses piled up in bountiful crop years. By old-fashioned norms, 1960's wet spring, instead of leading to record harvests, should have brought on poor crops, by interfering with farmers' spring sowing. But modern farm mechanization makes it possible for farmers to get their sowing done fast, during brief letups in the weather. Now a wet spring, storing up ground moisture for summer, brings bigger crops-and bigger headaches for the Secretary...
...Nixon lean into nonpartisanship that the Republican New York Herald Tribune headlined: NIXON: REPUBLICRAT OR DEMOCAN? Such a style may not sit well with G.O.P. regulars, Nixon conceded, but he is convinced that since the G.O.P. is the minority party, according to party registration, he must gather in a heavy majority of the independent vote if he is to win in November...
...Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia; the first Ghanaian detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization...
...going to lean heavily on Felix," she confided. "He is very intelligent, though young...
...lean-to is another miserable failure," noted Boyd on the second day. "We need some kind of food," he wrote on the third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...