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...Farm (Sun., 5 p.m., NBCTV) is an hour-long pseudo documentary that aims at illustrating to the city viewer the grandeurs of bucolic life. The first program was just sow-sow. It originated mostly "live" from the Wilbert Landmeier farm near Cloverdale, Ill., with Country Singer Eddy Arnold on hand to greet viewers and help show the folks around the place. The cameras ranged nearly everywhere: to the dairy barn to watch the milking; to the front yard, for a talk with Mother Landmeier and her healthy youngsters; to the barnyard, where Weatherman Clint Youle spoke of the crops...
Staggering Goal. As facts about the venture in Kazakhstan seeped out of Russia, outside experts were struck by two things in particular: 1) the declared goal was staggering-to make over 32 million acres of land, and to plow, sow and harvest 18 to 20 million tons of grain there within only two years; 2) the Kremlin was willing to rob its established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka...
...next scene is decorator's red, the next ultramarine blue, and so merrily on around the color wheel until the audience is almost too dizzy to realize that Red Garters is a snappy little spoof of cowboy pictures. Jack Carson plays the sow-bellied sheriff, Rosemary Clooney the lady known as Cal. Guy Mitchell is the man on the white horse, Gene Barry is the hombre on the black. Pat Crowley wears the gingham and blinks purty-like. There are a few harmless songs, some lively skedaddling by the dancers, and everybody seems to be enjoying himself...
...board chairman, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, when Coolidge visited San José last month. "I explicitly told Coolidge," the President said, "that it is not the intention of my government to nationalize the industry by expropriation or any violent measure . . . The sale plan is a simple suggestion to sow the idea in the minds of the directors...
...should like . . . to thank President Eisenhower for the initiative he has taken this week with respect to atomic materials and for his forthright reaffirmation of our desire for peaceful . . . relations with the Russian people," he said. But, Stevenson went on, "while he speaks of unity his colleagues sow disunity. While he calls for calm his friends light the fires of hysteria . . . Where are [Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms] today? Who speaks for them...