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...farm-implement manufacturer, which has lost two presidents and $72 million in the past two years. Last week, after a nine-month talent hunt, the board (and worried bankers) picked a new president: Merritt D. Hill, 59, who showed rare energy and chilly efficiency in building Ford's tractor division from a one-horse producer of utility tractors to a full-line implement manufacturer before retiring as a Ford vice president this month. His job now is to wipe out Case's $118 million bank debt, shine up a corporate reputation that was tarnished when onetime...
...just past midnight when the two big tractor-trailers, loaded with cheese and butter, pulled out of a terminal in Birmingham, Ala., to start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...
...While. For many farmers, increased costs caused losses. Merced County, Calif., growers harvested a poor barley crop because they lacked water; with the water table dropping, some farmers had to pay $15 a foot to deepen wells. Michigan Dairy Farmer Lloyd Smith reckoned the cost of a new tractor at $6,000 compared with $3,000 ten years ago, also paid taxes of $964 as against $276 when he bought his 345-acre farm nine years ago. Thus, in many U.S. areas, bankers and merchants reported increases in credit buying and loan extensions by farmers. Said Tractor Dealer Dan Humason...
...Soviet Union, romance took the form of girl-loves-tractor. In Communist China, it is girl-loves-bucket. Gushed a Red propagandist: "The girl carries away the soil as the boy dredges the pond. Sweat drips from their bodies. The girl does not complain of fatigue, although she has carried a thousand loads; nor does the boy feel the chill in the mud. It is not convenient to talk to each other, but they understand each other at heart. Both are heroic fellows. They work until the stars disappear and the sun rises...
...fields south of Ltibeck, the double barbed wire resumes, and it is no slipshod affair. Cement pylons are sunk 5 ft. into the ground and stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped with a posthole digger is busily planting holes every dozen feet. As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier...