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...Never has there been such whooping, shooting and scalping. Reason: at a time when nearly everything else in the U.S. economy is bubbling and foaming up, beer sales are going down. Thus, every U.S. brewer, from the Big Three national giants-Anheuser-Busch, Schlitz, Pabst-on down to the smallest local brewery is on the warpath, each trying to scalp the others in the fight for sales. At the top of the heap, and battling to stay in the No. 1 spot, is Anheuser-Busch's President August Anheuser Busch Jr., grandson of Co-Founder Adolphus. Like his grandfather...
...annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug a 7-oz. "ladies'-size" Budweiser bottle...
Green Apple. Of the brothers, Walter was the smallest (now 5 ft. 8½ in.) and the least brilliant in school. He flunked English and algebra. At 16, he quit to become an apprentice machinist at Wheeling Steel (11? an hour). In 1927 he went to Detroit to make big money...
...farmers approve the quotas, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will peg prices at an average 76% of parity, v. 82½% this year. If farmers kick over the quotas, the support price will automatically drop to 50%. Benson's reasoning on the 76% figure: with forecasts for the smallest wheat crop (845 million bu.) in twelve years, 1956 will be a good year to cut down the mountain of surplus farm products that the U.S. must now buy under its support program...
...Stranger. Just how Caltech achieved its extraordinary stature is one of the phenomena of U.S. education. Since it took its present form only 35 years ago, it is not only the youngest of its peers among U.S. universities, it is also one of the smallest (600 undergraduates, 450 graduate students). On its 30-acre campus of stucco, Mediterranean-style buildings and olive-shaded walks, no one is a stranger, and with its faculty of 350, it has the luxuriously high teacher-student ratio of about one to three. While other campuses glut themselves with courses, Caltech will happily drop...