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...change horses-the peasant plow horse for the horse of heavy industry-that is the goal. . . of the Five-Year Plan...
...appearances, the patient was dead on arrival, evidently from a heart attack. William Fruehling, 49, of St. Croix Falls, Wis. (pop. 1,500), a village handyman, had been helping to take a snow plow off a truck in zero weather just after lunch when he collapsed, half in and half out of the cab of his truck. A fellow worker had found him, wrestled the 200-lb. null onto the seat of the truck and drove it a quarter-mile to St. Croix Memorial Valley Hospital...
...really begin living until he has come close to dying. That is the message from Poet-Novelist Jesse Stuart to his readers. Busy Author Stuart, who wrote nearly 20 books in 20 years, including the rawboned poetry of Man with a Bull-Tongued Plow and bestselling Taps for Private Tussie, used to live at top speed. Then, two years ago, at 47, rushing from a lecture in Murray, Ky. to catch a chartered plane for another speaking date in Illinois, he was brought crashing to earth by a severe heart attack...
...political expediency in Washington, D.C. . . . And what were the results? For one, Uncle Sam himself took up farming. Synthetic farmers behind Washington desks started telling farmers all over again what crops to plant, how much to grow ... the prices to charge. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield . . . The value of the Government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to $9 billion. The cost of storage alone has been $1,000,000 a day-none of it going to the farmers and with farmers helping...
...make a political speech but to visit again the Great Plains of his boyhood, "this great central granary of the United States." Rambling on with appropriate corniness, the President harked back to the "peace" theme of the television speech he had made earlier in the week (see below). The plow, he told his overalled, khakied and cottoned audience, is man's "symbol of peace"; in "that wonderful future time when there shall be no war," swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Farm families consequently "feel closer to peace, feel closer to the need for peace" than any other group...