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...journalistic consequences of our harried age has been the rise in the circulation of the weekly newsmagazines. To those who wish to keep up with the world, but can't bother to plow through the newspapers, these magazines offer an entire week's events boiled down into one easily-digested serving. And they are influential. As Time (circ. 2,000,000), modestly admits in its advertisements, "America's leading educators, presidents of business corporation, members of Congress, the top men in practically every field vote Time their favorite magazine. . . . They depend on its accuracy...
...down most of the virgin timber on his farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when...
City Farmer. Kaisen is a rare type-a big-city mayor who lives on and works his own farm. He has run Bremen since a summer's day in 1945, when a U.S. colonel came up to him as he tramped behind a plow-pulling pair of oxen. Would he care to be Bürgermeister of Bremen, the colonel asked. "No," Kaisen snorted through his mustache, "the Nazis destroyed this well-ordered state. They are the ones who should have to rebuild it." The colonel returned with some prominent Bürger. They persuaded Kaisen to accept...
...could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened economy. No longer are there abandoned Arab villages to be filled, no longer is there fertile land, once worked by the Arabs, to be brought to plow; there remain only the harsh lands of the desert and the stony hills of Galilee. Last week Premier Moshe Sharett warned against "ill-considered alarmism" over the Jews in North Africa, and the government made it plain that only in case of actual persecution of Jews would Israel...
...more than 250 years, the horse was to America what the sailing ship was to the British Empire: carrier of arms and men, of commerce, of mail. Harnessed to the plow, the horse helped the frontiersman turn wilderness into civilization...