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...architecture, Jarrell found it flourishing. "Even colleges have stopped rebuilding the cathedrals of Europe on their campuses; and a mansion is what it is, not because a millionaire has dreamed of the Alhambra, but because an architect has dreamed of the marriage of Frank Lloyd Wright and a silo . . . The public that lives in the houses our architects design ... is a broadminded, tolerant, adventurous public, one that has triumphed over inherited prejudice to an astonishing degree. You can put a spherical plastic gas tower on aluminum stilts, divide it into rooms, and quite a few people will be willing...
...next day to Springfield, Ill., Stevenson had one of his rare campaign meetings with Running Mate Estes Kefauver, and between their assessments of the campaign ("Elated," said Adlai; "We are both very happy," said Estes), both pitched hard for the farm vote.† In language as plain as a silo on the skyline, Kefauver told a farmer-dominated audience of 5,000 that the Eisenhower-Benson farm program has been "one big flop from beginning to end." Stevenson then took over to charge Ike and the G.O.P. with "callous political perfidy," "self-righteous hypocrisy," "broken promises," and "duplicity" in dealing...
...Farmers and their helpers are subject to a mysterious illness called "silo-filler's disease" if they go into a silo soon after it has been filled while fermentation is at its height. In the A.M.A. Journal, two Minneapolis doctors report that the disease, which may be fatal, results from damage to the lungs caused by inhaling oxides of nitrogen. The preventive: "Allow no one to enter a silo for any purpose from the time filling begins until seven to ten days after it is finished...
...Barns and silos can be unhealthy places for farmers. Reports presented to the Wisconsin Trudeau Society indicate two diseases-"farmer's lung" and "silo filler's disease"-can have a crippling effect on farm workers. Farmer's lung is a reaction to grain dust, producing chills, nausea and shortness of breath. It has forced a number of Wisconsin farmers to give up farming. Silo filler's disease is potentially more dangerous. Caused by exposure to nitrogen dioxide from fresh silage, the ailment has killed several farm hands in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area...
Proud as a Missouri farmer showing off a new silo, Harry Truman took newsmen on a surprise tour last week of the $5,500,000 renovation job begun in 1949 to save the aging White House from collapse. In a jaunty powder-blue suit, the President was at his folksy best as he ducked and weaved among workmen who had seen him around so much that they scarcely bothered to glance...