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...vicious circle," says Richard Shipman, throwing up his hands. "The farmers have no money, and to get a loan, the Government requires them to sow less-land. If they sow less land, there is nothing to sell! The only winners are the large plunderers...
Religion is lived by all the people. Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer. There are nearly as many Living Buddhas as there are lamaseries, including one female incarnation whose name translates as "Thunderbolt Sow." Prayer is everywhere, on the lips of men and on flags and bits of paper stamped with woodblock imprints of the sacred words: "Om mani padme hum [Hail, the jewel in the lotus)." The phrase flutters from tall poles outside villages, from trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow...
...neutralism showed further signs of awakening. The U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, ranging himself against the Reds who surround Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, admitted that he once thought that Arab Communists were independent of Moscow. "But they were not," said Nasser; they were trying to sow dissension and "put us into spheres of influence...
...Porkliner, claims that with $112,000 worth of its equipment one man can raise 7,000 hogs a year with only half-day help. The Pork-liner is a hog's country club. The little pigs begin with private rooms, to avoid being stepped on by the sow. A hydraulic lift is used to stack the cages six rows high. Manure falls through the cage bottoms and is mechanically removed to be used as fertilizer. In their whole lives, until they are made into ham, sausages and bacon, the hogs never know weight-killing struggle...
...circuit judge) has represented Virginia's Eighth Congressional District, stretching from the Blue Ridge to the Northern Neck and including Charlottesville and Fredericksburg. Judge Smith owns three farms, lives on his family lands near Broad Run, where he has nearly 300 head of dairy cattle, and an old red sow whose ears he likes to scratch. A hard fighter but a fair one. Smith knows the House rules and lives by them. "These rules have been developed over 170 years." he says. "There is reason behind them...