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...could plow words together like that but a Pentagon flack? What in the wild blue yonder is he talking about...
There were, of course, serious problems to be thought about or dealt with. Warfare raged in Southeast Asia and the U.S. had a deep commitment there (see cover story}. It appeared that the U.S. Congress, despite lopsided Democratic majorities in both houses, might plow under a lot of the President's legislative programs before it went home. The nation's businessmen were still suspicious of the President as a result of his slashing attack on the steel industry. But despite these concerns, the prevailing mood inside the White House was a cheerful, almost exuberant confidence...
...that "Young Americans for Feudalism" would sponsor a speech entitled "Will public education destroy private initiative" and a sign "Homans saves" (for the uninitiated, Homans wrote a touching panegyric about the 13th century English peasant--400 pages worth--75 of which were devoted to measurements of the peasant's plow...
...fully equal peoples." The Greatest Failure. To hasten affluence in Russia, Khrushchev in the past eight years has doubled the number of tractors (to 1,168,000) and ruthlessly cannibalized collective farms (250,000 into 40.000). His greatest gamble-and, say some Western critics, his most catastrophic-was to plow $40 billion into marginal virgin lands when the investment could have been profitably used to intensify farming in more fertile areas...
...leased a small cottage to which he and his wife retreated when they anticipated a busy night on the runway. A representative of the Airline Pilots Association further aggravated his fears with the admission that "in event of motor failure on takeoff, pilots would have no recourse but to plow into my house." In 1953 Griggs filed suit against the airport. In 1956 he sold his house and five acres to the St. Philip's Episcopal Church (whose congregation has since been bothered only a few times on Sunday mornings; when that happens, says Pastor Donald Clawson, "we simply...