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...Nikita Khrushchev's desk was an ear of American corn, sent him by a U.S. seed company. On the nearby boardroom-type table were two bottles of mineral water: one from the North Caucasus, one from the South Caucasus. Khrushchev, wearing two Orders of Lenin medals on the left lapel of his dark suit jacket, waved his visitor to a chair at the table, took another for himself. "What," he asked, "would you like to discuss?" Replied Minnesota's endlessly ebullient, hardheadedly liberal Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Many things." And for 83-hours last week Nikita Khrushchev...
...mushrooming of the West Coast missile complex has brought a combination bonanza and headache to the nearby town of Lompoc, once noted for its peaceful setting amid acres of seed farms. Population has jumped from 7,000 to 9,000 in two years, school enrollment has all but doubled, land values have gone from $2,000 to $8,000 an acre. But even though its streets are jammed with airmen, construction workers and even visiting R.A.F. trainees, Lompoc, remembering the fabulous buildups at Camp Cooke during past wars-and the abrupt shutdowns that followed-is alone in the world...
...amid a resentment of raddled colors, the sun dipped beneath the great lip of the earth's rim and the landscape dark as an ancient photograph, warm and old as the closed volume of its million passion years, sublimated into the uncomprehending and excellent excrescence of the pale poppy-seed dimension, timeless, in the hand of whatever great essence contains the world in the forests of his brows...
Graham's first three contestants this week were Cleo V. Dome, a Bucklin, Kans. football coach who wants $15,000 to start a wholesale and retail seed-cleaning business; Del and Betty Robinson, who need $10,000 to start a shop specializing in party planning and decorating; and Tony Oropesa, a restaurant operator who wants $15,000 to start a seafood restaurant in Wichita. Private Enterprise has $314,000 available for loans, may make Opportunity Knocks a national program if it is a success in Kansas. Graham hopes to see a program with no losers. Says he: "Somewhere...
...September, when he coupled the promise of land reform with the announcement of Aref's demotion, Kassem softened the late-night radio broadcast of Aref's arrest "for plotting against the national safety" by a timely decree boosting pay for the armed forces and police, alloting free seed for farmers, and promoting to the next class all students who failed last spring's exams...