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...program (farming, foreign aid education, fiscal policy). At the same time, it has condemned Republicans whom it labels "extremist," e.g., Vice President Nixon, has criticized what it considers "disgraceful excesses" of the loyalty-security program, and has hit often and hard at what it calls the tidelands oil and timber "giveaways." It has also sharply needled (but sometimes praised) John Foster Dulles on foreign policy...
...many of his colleagues in the U.S. Foreign Service, long-legged Angus Ward was always a bit of a trial. When Angus joined the service in 1925, after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
...dive" I chuckled over (TIME'S naiveté) was Al Sarena's mining of timber-but best expressed by Congresswoman Edith Green's quatrain...
...setting the record straight. The Interior Department, he explained, is required by law to make grants on claims with reasonably good ore-producing prospects. On first considering the Al Sarena case, said Davis, he ordered that new assays be taken. They showed sufficient ore content to warrant the grants. Timber rights naturally were included in the grants...
...railroads, few have branched out into more off-track business than the Southern Pacific. It runs a 22-acre produce market in Los Angeles, sold 47.5 million bd. ft. of timber from its 430,000 acres of tree farms last year, has a corps of drivers who pick up every General Motors car produced in California and deliver it to dealers. It was one of the first railroads to start a bus line; it has more truck-line routes than track mileage, and it has even tried to sell airline tickets at its whistle-stop stations. Last week the Southern...