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...number of shining political virtues: he worked hard for the ticket in politically touchy North Carolina; he is trusted by the South; and he is respected and liked by the U.S. business community. An old pro with young ideas, Hodges is the Methodist son of a dirt-poor tenant farmer. He worked his way through the state university at Chapel Hill, spent 17 years with the Marshall Field & Co. textile empire. where he became a vice president, before taking his first political step in 1952. Then, on a friend's advice, he ran for lieutenant governor, won with surprising...
...Indianapolis News to his string of newspapers,* the News lacked an editor. Pulliam did not mind. He sets overall editorial policy anyway-on a bearing somewhat to the right of Warren Gamaliel Harding. Last week, after twelve years, the editor's chair at the News finally had a tenant. "I've been looking for years to find a man like him." chortled Gene Pulliam, 71. "I've combed the whole goddam country. There are lots of good journalists around, but they're all cockeyed left-wingers...
...Cartels that restrict competition are all too blithely tolerated, says the report, recommending U.S.-style restraints on monopoly. There are far too many subsidies supporting inefficient businesses, e.g., in the alcohol, sugar and flour-milling industries. Farms are often too small to reap the harvest of mechanization, and inefficient tenant farmers are kept in business by state grants. The food distribution system is archaic, encouraging low turnover and high profit margins. The report's solution : a telecommunications system to create a nationwide produce market in which prices can respond to supply and demand...
...backwoods, off-the-map hamlet that he calls Hobe's Hill, Agee and Evans lived with a tenant farmer named George Gudger, made frequent side visits to the ramshackle farms of Fred Ricketts and Bud Woods. Tennessee-born Jim Agee felt the call of blood as well as the vast bond of compassion, since his father's people had come down from the hills back of Knoxville. But Agee also felt that he was an alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find...
...tough-minded economic adviser, forced upon the reluctant Japanese a stiff dose of deflation and decontrol-and thereby laid the foundations of Japan's present economic strength. No less vital was the land-reform program which, by redistributing 4,500,000 acres of land and cutting tenant farmers from 48% of the agricultural population to only 9%, gave Japan a contented rural population that has been the mainstay of its conservative-minded governments ever since...