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...year-old student at a high school in Quitman, Ga., Farm Boy Wesley Patrick got a class project-the care of a gilt and a boar. He did so well that he won second prize at a local swine show. Much encouraged. Patrick asked his vocational agriculture teacher how he might get into full-time farming. Advised Teacher Drawdy Willis: "Develop and expand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Develop & Expand | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking, is for the evening hours and the short hours of the morning. Only bankers, utility moguls, insurance-company presidents, Methodist bishops, Catholic monsignori, managing editors of newspapers, and other such swine drink during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken Redivivus | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Road Hog. In Bielefeld, Germany, Motorist Georg Plaut was fined $50 for "using insulting language to fellow road users," after he rigged up an illuminated sign in his back window which flashed: SWINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Despite the political clamor for his resignation, Benson was still up to his old determination to tell people what he thought they should hear, whether they wanted to hear it or not. At a meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Apostles to the Farmers | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...first hard look at Serov. But his career, pieced together from the reports of hundreds of Soviet refugees, had long been studied by Western intelligence agencies. In the words of refugee Lieut. Colonel Grigory Burlitsky, a former coworker, Serov at 50 is "one of the most ruthless and opportunistic swine in the whole dirty business." The "dirty business": the liquidation of opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Third Man | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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