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...housewarming, the 15 foreign ministers of the North Atlantic alliance gathered in Bonn last week. West Germany's place in the alliance is now so well accepted that the world little noted that this was the first time such a NATO meeting had been held on German soil. Arriving at the airport, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles referred to it: "Two years ago a sovereign, democratic and peace-loving German state, arisen from the ashes of war, joined this organization. Now we meet on German soil to counsel together on how to advance further that common welfare...
Located in a river funnel, the courts collect all the energy of capricious Boston weather and translate it into wind. For the survival of tennis, some form of windbreak is obviously needed. The clearest solution--trees and bushes--would look most pleasant, but due to the cindery bog soil around the courts, topsoil would have to be brought in. This can be done, but requires work and money. It was tried, on a half-hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less...
...America's real needs is a greater social stratification. A "rising middle class" seems to be absorbing all Americans and their values into its omnivorous Levittowns. Unfortunately, our soil has been tilled by the frontiersman or the commercial farmer--both of them interested in improving their position in society. Thus the middle class has been increased in numbers, while there has been no class lovingly devoted--like the Russian peasant--to the land. Although we realize that mere economic measures would not bring about the desired social structure, it is also true that the older European corporate and feudal system...
...Deere & Co. President William A. Hewitt told stockholders that they can expect 10%-20% more business. We estimate that farm income will be 3% to 5% higher in 1957." The brighter outlook came from a break m the drought that had dried up 14 Midwest and Southwest states, plus soil-bank payments, which will make participating farmers an average $1,000 richer in 1957 t came also from smarter marketing a curbing of production to meet demand. Hog shipments were down 13% thus pushing prices as high as $18.25 cwt v. $15.75 last year...
Against that welcome news was the prospect that good weather will help produce one of the greatest feed-grain crops ot all time-a depressing addition to the record 43 million-ton carryover from last year. Nevertheless, the soil-bank program has done better than expected in taking corn land out of cultivation. Farmers have withdrawn a total 5,200,000 acres this spring, cutting expected corn acreage by nearly 10%. While the basic problems of oversupply are still far from solved, even the most pessimistic farm economists believe that the farm cycle has ended its downturn, and stabilized...