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Susannah Martin, the Salem fathers believed, was every inch a witch. She sent the devil into cattle, raised phantom puppies and came into the house dry out of a drenching rainstorm. She was therefore hanged on Gallows Hill in 1692, the year of the great Salem witch trials...
Learning the News. At seven the next morning Naguib woke, switched on the radio and heard the surprising news: at 4 a.m. the R.C.C. had accepted his resignation and had named Nasser to his place as Premier. Over the air, Chief Propagandist Salah Salem painted Mohammed Naguib as never before−an ambitious, hypocritical, devious publicity seeker. Added Salem: Naguib was not "under arrest," but had merely been "asked to remain in his house a month...
...Henry is just home folks," said the chairman, introducing Henry Agard Wallace. The onetime Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Vice President took time off last week from the quiet life on his South Salem, N.Y. farm to attend a Des Moines farm meeting. The introduction done, Wallace arose to make "my most important speech in several years." Those who remembered him as the avant-garde New Dealer and author of Government corn and cotton loans in 1933 were in for a surprise: Henry Wallace urged a U.S. farm program almost the same as that put forth by the Republican Eisenhower...
When Wallace finished speaking, some 1,200 farmers cheered for a full minute. Then Henry Wallace headed back for South Salem, where he works with hybrid gladioli and strawberries. Said he: "I'm crossing strawberry seedlings from Macedonia, Switzerland, Canada and elsewhere." And sometimes they grow "almost as large as a golf ball...
...Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington last week went an unusual application. The McLean Trucking Co. of Winston-Salem, N.C., the South's biggest, wanted permission to go to sea, build ships, and expand into a $50 million land-sea transportation service between Southern and Eastern ports. McLean's reason: highway transportation costs have shot up 50% since 1940, and the company wants a cheaper way of hauling freight...