Word: soils
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...frame, and would tickle a 20/20 elephant eye. Beyond the corn, a new crop of tomatoes was ripening; the cattle were fattening nicely; the flower garden was a colorplate right out of Burpee's seed catalogue. For Farmer Shuman, walking the rich brown soil and caressing its bounty last weekend, God was in his heaven-even if all, as usual, was far from right with the world...
...earth. His adversary for most of his 58 years has been the agricultural bureaucracy in Washington, which Shuman regards as a kind of socialistic Santa Claus engaged in a monstrous plot to make the nation's farmers live off "sugarplum subsidies" rather than the honest fruits of the soil. Unfashionably, by today's standards, Shuman distrusts government in any form, spurns its handouts. "Farming's Freedom Fighter," as he is often called, Shuman is president of the 1,647,455-member American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest and most influential general farm organization...
...bona fide son of the Moultrie County soil his family has farmed since 1853, Shuman has deep roots in the fertile farmland around Sullivan (pop. 4,000). The nucleus of the present Shuman farm has been in the family for 112 years. Great-Grandfather Charles Shuman was a Bavarian shoemaker who immigrated to the U.S. in 1835, changed the spelling of his last name from Schumann ("to Americanize it," says Charlie), and settled in Philadelphia. His son, also Charles, grew up and headed West to seek his fortune. When he got to Sullivan, he ran out of money, went...
...anyway. To add parasail equipment would take up valuable weight and space. Russian engineers, on the other hand, launch their spacecraft over broad stretches of land; thus they have concentrated on ground landings. Besides, the Soviet sense of secrecy makes them want to bring down their capsules on Soviet soil, not international waters...
...weather." Later, it was suggested that the Telex line that was to relay the flight plan was out of order, and the French might have gotten a garbled version. This did not alter the fact that there is a blanket prohibition against foreign air photos of French soil without permission of the government; even when the U.S. wanted photos of the American cemetery at Ste.-Mère-Eglise last year, it had to get approval...