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...think that most students would rather have a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich at lunch than have bacon at breakfast," he said, "but this is something we'll have to talk to the students about...
...hour week and the dark, satanic mills of the 19th century. Yet down on the farm child labor remains a national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of children are working in fields all around the country. They labor in the cherry orchards of Michigan, the peach orchards of Colorado, the tomato fields of New Jersey, the bean fields of Oregon. The practice is especially flagrant in California, the richest agricultural state. After visiting San Joaquin Valley, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss sent this report...
Helen Dickerson Wise looked out the kitchen window of her 100-year-old white clapboard farmhouse one day last week and mulled over the riches that the summer would bring. "I helped my son Dirk plant 755 tomato plants a month ago," she remarked, "and found muscles that I haven't felt in years. By now the corn is about ready; we'll be having the first ears next week. We won't have any strawberries this year, but Til can and jam the peaches from our own trees in the early fall." Mrs. Wise also...
There is talk that freighter captains may refuse to go on running the Communist blockade because of the high risks involved. In fact, some of their cargo is less than crucial. Among the imports brought through Communist shellfire last week: glass beads, French wines and tomato sauce...
...time of excess, "everything is marketable," says Bucky's neighbor, a hack writer who lives on canned tomato soup and saltines. He is working on a new literary form: pornography for children. Globke, Bucky's anxious manager, is a winsome monster because he is totally aware of what he is. "I'm not new money, new culture, new consciousness," he says. "I emerge from a distinct tradition. Bad taste...