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...also relaxes or abolishes acreage controls, raises the prospect that farmers across the country could suddenly decide to put every available acre in, say, corn and sell to the Government at the announced price ($1.10 per bu. minimum). This danger is increased by the termination this year of the Soil Bank's expensive "acreage reserve" section, under which farmers were paid for keeping acres out of corn and other cash crops. Benson himself knows that the $6 billion annual cost of the farm program, big enough to bother Hubert Humphrey, is not likely to come down very fast...
...Premier Saeb Salam, self-styled "leader of Beirut rebels," who keeps a sign on his sandbagged command post, "Appointments 9 to 1 and 4 to 7," announced that the elections ought not to be held as long as Chamoun remained President, and "aggressor" troops remained on Lebanese soil. But other rebels disavowed his remarks...
...political awakening in which Islam played a big part. Wherever this Pan-Arab idea came to life, it ran up against the Western imperial domination of the day. The foreigner who drew his arbitrary borders across the body of the Arab lands, who exploited the riches of the Arab soil and what lay beneath it, this Western foreigner was the enemy...
When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...
...Vast Plan." On his last evening, De Gaulle broadcast a pledge that "France intends to initiate on this soil a vast plan of renovation." More than $35 million would be added to the budget for Algerian development. "From this year, the number of new dwellings will be doubled. Within ten years, all the children of Algeria will be going to school...