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...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...
...staged such a gaudy welcome. At the New Delhi airport last week, crowds surged forward and nearly smothered their guest from overseas with garlands. Prime Minister Nehru hailed him as "the symbol of African independence." From Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah had come for his first visit to Asian soil. "In Africa," cooed Bombay's Free Press Journal, "it is Dr. Nkrumah who wears the mantle of the Mahatma...
...powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided generous Government price support for millions of bushels of corn raised outside his acreage-restriction programs. And he has muddied debate by underwriting such feeble steps as 1956's since-discarded acreage-reserve provisions of the soil bank and his new, too-little, too-late corn program, which, by abandoning production curbs in return for a very modest decrease in corn price supports, threatens to bring on a bigger corn glut than ever...
Form Subsidies. These remain the Administration's biggest headache (see Agriculture), but the budget envisions a $600 million saving in nonrecurring expenses for the acreage reserve section of the soil bank program (which was not extended by the last Congress), as much as $179 million on rural electrification, and a big chunk of the $250 million being spent for agricultural conservation. Moreover, the Agriculture department's surplus estimates are based not on the balmy-weather bumper crops of 1958 but on the ornery-weather average of other years...
...country's first silage system, taught sanitation, farm management, building construction and irrigation, brought high-yield corn (50 bu. per acre) from Indonesia, improved pasture and foliage, showed his charges how to use commercial fertilizer, planted grain and sweet sorghum, introduced the Velvet bean and the cowpea (for soil improvement). In his own acre-plus garden he demonstrated to once dubious Thailanders that pineapples and bananas can be grown well in poor soil, even cultivated tomatoes, collards, okra, eggplant, yellow squash, sweet corn and lettuce...