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...defense of the jet sale, the Kennedy Administration has taken the overall question of aid to Yugoslavia under close review. President Kennedy was angered by the hostility Tito displayed toward the West at the Belgrade conference of neutrals last month. Requesting a 500,000-ton shipment of surplus U.S. wheat to supplement their poor harvest, Yugoslav officials were informed last week by U.S. Ambassador George Kennan that no such commitment would be made-at least for the time being. Clearly, the choice was up to Tito: whether to be at least reasonably friendly toward the U.S. or to forgo...
...Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive at solutions in advance-like Noah...
Kansas-born Novelist Julia Siebel seems intent on becoming the laureate of quiet lives desperately lived. In two novels about her native state, there is an occasional wheat-crop failure, but the yield of domestic unhappiness is as invariable as debt and taxes. In The Narrow Covering (TIME, July 30, 1956), careless and malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop...
Paul Bembroy is by definition a non-hero. Having failed both as a lawyer and then as a farmer, he now runs a grain elevator for a prosperous friend in a lonely wheat town. He is competent and intelligent and resigned. His big, blonde wife has given him three children whom he can hardly approach, so deep is the gulf of misunderstanding. And the wife herself has been blinded by an accident. Yet it is she who, by comparison, takes on the heroic cast. She goes on doing the housework, baking the bread, coping with the children. As for Paul...
Besides the immediate economic waste, the Freeman program gravely undermines the freedom of the American farmer. For example, no one can plant wheat as a cash crop this year unless he has grown it in each of the last three years. And the acreage restriction plan encourages an exploitative attitude toward the government--give Orville your worst land and seed the rest more heavily. In sum, the role of the government in Freeman's paradise is that of a silly and meddlesome despot whose chief idols are underproduction, inefficiency, and waste...