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There the night fog wisps early along the creek valley, and the silence is broken only by the howl of timber wolves. There Orval Faubus, prematurely born and weighing only 4 Ibs., "growed like a weed" in the hardest of all soil. There Orval learned about politics from his father, "Uncle Sam" Faubus, a sort of mountain Populist. Last week in the Ozark woods, Uncle Sam, crippled from arthritis but still scratching a living from his hillside farm, mused on his son's fame. "Little Orval," said J. Sam Faubus, "he was different to most boys. Kids like...
...establish friendly ties with Poland, and their best means is to abandon some of the German claims to what is now Polish territory. Should this ever come to pass, the Kremlin would be put on the spot-asked to answer why Russia was still hanging onto former Polish soil...
Congratulations to TIME, Aug. 19 on "The $5 Billion Farm Scandal." Never before have we paid for so many acres of well cultivated weeds of all kinds. Is that soil conservation...
...hold on the voters. The British do not doubt that Jagan is as Red as ever, but the line he now talks is quite different from 1953, when he promised to shoot the "oppressors." This time he shows more practical concern with the colony's huge problems-poor soil, soggy terrain, and torrid climate. He preaches cooperation with the Crown and with the firms controlling British Guiana's sugar and bauxite industries...
...evening, thousands swarmed about the 700-year-old hall shouting, "Clean up the mess!" Cops broke it up by arresting 30 of the demonstrators. Inside, Mayor Achille Lauro, millionaire shipowner and leader of the Popular Monarchist Party, insisted, "Our hands are clean, because we don't have to soil ourselves by stealing public money." No one accused Lauro of pocketing any money personally. But the Ministry of the Interior in Rome declared that its inquiry into Naples graft had turned up "stupefying incompetence, unpardonable abuses, illegitimate profiteering," which was part of the reason Lauro's administration...