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...hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer...
With that, the Administration harvested a healthy first crop in the farm policy fight. But the Senate still has to plow its way through 70-odd proposed amendments to the farm bill, and then the bill has to go to conference, where it will be up against a rigid support bill passed by the House last year. At week's end, Secretary Benson was prodding Congress to hurry the bill through so the widely favored soil bank plan will put some money into farmers' pockets this year...
...cadres supervising the slave labor always use high-sounding, almost loving words, to describe their charges. Those who die of exposure and overwork are eulogized as "dead heroes." On the "mechanized farms" a few Soviet tractors are used, but most of the work is done with primitive plows manned by groups of six pulling on plow ropes. When the slave laborers fail to fulfill their "norms," they are obliged to conduct "selfcriticism" sessions. Risings in these remote camps have been frequent. Mobile units of slave laborers have been reported as far distant as Poland and Czechoslovakia...
...Luckman generally charge clients either a straight fee or a percentage of cost, ranging from 4.5% (for an air base) to 8% (for a hospital). Despite the booming business. Pereira and Luckman take out much less than the $100,000-a-year Luckman got as president of Pepsodent. They plow back the bulk of the profits into the business. Though he is busier than ever, Luckman still finds time to serve on the boards of five Los Angeles civic groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who recently commissioned Pereira...
...auctioneer knocks down Dale Peterson's cattle, hogs and plow at fractional prices, and the camera swings away from Corning. It swings expertly for the next 45 minutes through farms and storage bins around the nation, through the giant stockpiles of grain stored in Liberty ships, finally catches youngsters in Washington singing America the Beautiful. Then it comes back to the grim visage of Secretary Benson, who has indeed been taking an occasional note...