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...large, the G.O.P. elders were pleased with the crop. Many of the candidates are lawyers, and several are doctors, though their ranks also include a California geologist, an Ohio newspaper publisher, an Indiana livestock salesman, and a South Dakota Sioux Indian who is a Harvard Ph.D. and was an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs until he resigned to run for office. By and large they had a surprisingly strong conservative bent. In a representative cross section polled by a TIME correspondent, only a few chose to identify themselves as middle-of-the-roaders. A substantial majority arranged themselves...
...Election. In Hillsboro, N.C., John D. Larkins Jr., campaigning for governor, attended a livestock auction, waved so heartily to a potential voter that the auctioneer yelled "Sold," presented him with a $15 calf...
...beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that in Alma Alta the director of a state livestock farm had placed a large roll of absorbent cotton on the back seat of his car, and declared that it was a Mobile Veterinary Laboratory. The Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences had not yet handed over a single one of the dozens of cars it was using. When the reporter demanded...
Gangs of agitators 70-and 80-strong descend on villages, plaster handbills on walls, harangue the people over loudspeakers, and turn every threat and promise on each individual farmer to join "the beautiful socialist society." Some farmers have committed suicide rather than submit. Many have slaughtered their livestock. The Erfurt Communist newspaper, Das Volk, recently reported 380 barn burnings in its district. And the most desperate have wrenched themselves away from their ancestral holdings and fled west, joining a refugee stream of about 400 a day. Said one farmer who fled last week to West Berlin with his family, after...
Scraping up $15,000, they rented an abandoned British army warehouse, began selling eggs and chickens on a big scale. For added income, they got exclusive dealerships for feed and livestock equipment. Though they lost $1,900 in their first year, they were in the black, with gross sales of $140,000 in 1957, and Stevenson quit Esso...