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...Goes the Farmer. Leo Hoegh's political problems are all bound up in the character of his state. Iowa is farming. The state's official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
...voters and motorcades, as a poll-judge and leaflet distributor, the student can at last make idea meet action. It is also, by the way, a chance for the effect and scholarly to encounter the inert and proletarian. If the campaign efforts of a doorbell-ringer or a pamphlet-strewer seem meager, at least there is always the "value of the experience...
...through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the record pie through RCA Victor (related to NBC) and Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does not miss what it does not hear." One method, testified Songwriter Adams, was in the form of memos to radio stations, saying: "This is a BMI number-meaning it is your own music. Be careful...
...improve the standing and increase the participation of businessmen in politics, General Electric recently sent 400,000 management men and stockholders a pamphlet entitled "Political Helplessness of Business Hurts Everybody." G.E.'s main argument: "The big reason that union officials are thought to be so important politically while businessmen are usually so impotent is that rightly or wrongly the politicians figure union officials can and do influence votes, while businessmen can't and don't. The businessman who says he's not involved in politics is kidding himself−dangerously." Adds William Harrison Fetridge, vice president...
...brandishing a revolver, said: "E.O.K.A. Hold up your hands. We are not going to kill you." Cremer replied: "Well, it doesn't much matter if you do, at my age." They bound him hand and foot and drove off with him. Shortly thereafter, E.O.K.A. circulated a pamphlet that warned: if the three condemned Cypriots hang, Cremer will...