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ORVILLE FREEMAN, 47, experienced his darkest hour as Secretary of Agriculture in 1963 when U.S. farmers overwhelmingly rejected his wheat program. Since then, in one of the Cabinet's toughest jobs, Freeman has steered a four-year farm bill through Congress, reduced agricultural surpluses by nearly a third, helped to make American food production a key instrument of foreign policy. He now stands at the peak of his popularity with farmers...
...Wheat for Hides. If building a skyscraper to camouflage an oil well seems unusual, it is only in keeping with the career of Armand Hammer, 67, a bouncy man with some unusual ideas. The son of a Bronx physician, Hammer himself went to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. While there, he and an older brother purchased for peanuts a large supply of Government-owned pharmaceutical products that had become surplus with the end of World War I. In 1921, at the age of 23, Hammer became an M.D.-and, by selling his pharmaceuticals on a rising market...
...good deeds. He bought a surplus field-hospital unit, including ambulance, from the U.S. Government, took it to Russia with every intention of providing medical treatment for the peasants. But when he discovered the famine in the Volga region, he told the Soviets that there was a glut of wheat in the U.S. and thereupon made a deal. For American wheat he bartered Russian furs, hides and caviar. Recalls Hammer: "Lenin called me to the Kremlin and said: 'We don't need doctors. We need Americans to do other things.' " Hammer became sales representative in Russia...
...that observance of the guidelines is voluntary, he also always acts as though anyone breaking through the guidelines is somehow defying the law of the land. Within the past year he has invoked the guidelines to enforce price rollbacks or holdbacks not only on steel, autos, aluminum, copper, and wheat and corn products-but also on such lesser items as mechanical pencils and catchers' mitts. During that same period, the President and his aides have employed the guideline concept to restrain wage increases for workers in the steel and maritime industries-as well as for federal employees. Thus...
...November night in 1959 two ex-convicts named Perry Smith and Richard Hickock entered the Holcomb, Kans., home of Herbert Clutter, a well-to-do wheat farmer, and killed everyone in it: Clutter, his wife, his 16-year-old daughter and his 15-year-old son. Murder was only incidental to the design, which was theft. But murder was also essential: the visitors intended to leave no witnesses. Within two months the killers, who had collected a tabletop radio, binoculars, and less than $50 in cash from their victims, were captured and condemned to death. Last April, after five years...