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Farmers. Most farmers remain prosperous; yet west of the Mississippi, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson "remains a prime liability . . . Some Midwestern Republicans are showing themselves more popular than the President because of their known opposition to Benson's farm policies...
Will the government be able to keep the population directed toward Communism? This is a major unanswered question. Ordinary Russians show signs of a to-hell-with-Communism, give-us-more-consumer-goods attitude that the government cannot ignore, and even of old-style Midwestern isolationist resentment against Soviet "giveaways" to China and India. But in any case, we must face this generalization: any changes in the Soviet Union within the next few years will be within the Soviet system and not against it. The Soviet people do not want to be liberated...
...tall, lithe man with greying blond hair, Lawrence never looked his years. Born in Canton, S. Dak. of Norwegian stock, the son of a superintendent of schools, he was a radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research...
Corsets & Buggy Whips. Like Curtice and Wilson, Donner was born in a small Midwestern town. His father was accountant for the only plant-a featherbone factory making corsets and buggy whips-in tiny (pop. 1,500) Three Oaks, Mich. Donner went regularly to the Congregational Sunday School, shied from athletics, read voraciously, mostly history. His life was orderly. Remembered a childhood friend last week: "He had a routine even as a boy. So much time for work, so much for play and so much for study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained...
...story is the usual daffy maize. Andy, now a prospering lawyer working for a West Coast aircraft manufacturer, returns to the sleepy Midwestern town of Carvel to negotiate for a plant site. Judge Hardy (the late Lewis Stone) has long since died. But Mom (Fay Holden), Aunt Milly (Sara Haden) and sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) are still settin' in the comfortable chairs of that old white house on Ames Avenue...