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...meet farmers on their home ground, each of Progressive Farmer's five editions concentrates on specific states, thus allows the magazine to pinpoint crop, land and cattle advice. When Poe first took over the magazine, farmers "believed more in the moon than they did in the agricultural colleges." Poe spurred the fight to change all that. Progressive Farmer educated farmers to diversify their farming ("Don't try to farm with one arm"), demanded "more doctors for rural areas," and worked for a better deal for the Negro ("We must fight for a much fairer deal for the Negro...
...that suddenly famous pinpoint on the earth, the men who lead the three great Western democracies came together last week with their retinues of Foreign Ministers, advisers, specialists and secret service guards. Ostensibly they met to box compasses and plot new directions before proceeding farther on that treacherous and often discouraging voyage, the quest for true peace with Russia. Actually they met-in the first full-dress conference of leaders of allied governments since Potsdam-not because they had dramatic new plans but because one of them, stout and determined old Winston Churchill, wanted a conference...
...fight against polio. A less exacting researcher might have been satisfied, but not Cohn. He hated the waste (and doubted the wisdom) of using whole gamma globulin as a shotgun blast against any of three diseases, and wanted to break it down into still finer fractions for pinpoint use against each disease...
...Panmunjom last week U.N. and Communist staff officers worked patiently amid piles of maps, charts and aerial photos. Their job: to pinpoint the demarcation line from which both armies will withdraw when an armistice is signed. Their difficulty: the line will not become final until the signing, and meanwhile, it was not holding still (see below). Already, Communist gains on the eastern front were forcing the negotiators to move the line south. Staff officers were well aware that men were dying as they talked, but theirs was a painstaking job, and it could not be rushed. "So far," said...
Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith was named to head a five-man subcommittee which will try to pinpoint "the officials and conditions responsible" for the shortage. Mrs. Smith promptly announced that the subcommittee would investigate ammunition supplies in Europe as well as Korea. Said she: "We have no intention of getting caught out in left field when the next batter may swing from the other side of the plate...