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...along with the Administration's request for 1956 payments to farmers contracting to enter the soil-bank program in 1957. Benson's schedule of payments was generous: if based on the average yield over the last five years, it would offer $22 for each acre of wheat withheld from production (estimated per acre market value before costs: $36), $35 per acre for corn ($54), $49 per acre for cotton ($104) and $57 per acre for rice ($113). At those rates the farmer with especially promising crop prospects would probably stay out of the program this year...
...caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...
...night in Portland an alert police reporter for the Oregonian (circ. 230,238) noted that there were suddenly no detectives around police headquarters. Sniffing a story, he demanded an explanation from the police chief. The chief kept mum a secret that was being withheld even from the paper's night city desk: detectives were out guarding the Oregonian's Reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert and their families while the pair were digging into one of the messiest official scandals in Northwest history...
...from the Communists' MVD to the Nazis' Gestapo, he found a vast difference in attitudes. There was a mechanical ingenuity to Gestapo methods of torture (a small machine for crushing testicles), and a pseudo-scientific slant to many of their regular duties (victims with perfect teeth were withheld from the incinerators in order to provide the Nazis with perfect skulls for paperweights; the heads of dead Jewish Communist commissars were pickled for an anthropological collection of "subhumans"). Whereas the Russians' prime concern seemed to be confessions of self-guilt, the Germans tortured mainly to extract admissions...
...committee withheld many of its findings (which will become court evidence), and made only partial reports in most cases. But taken together, the reports told a murky story of top-to-bottom official corruption that got its cue from Perón and extended down to such lowly posts as zoo keepers (one of whom appropriated the zoo's imported canaries for his private collection). Some tidbits: ¶ Perón did his mother-in-law out of half of her bequest from the late Eva Perón, then with a medieval flourish had Evita's brother...