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...grateful that the foundations of freedom in our nation grow stronger with each passing year, giving hope to fettered peoples that they may walk as free men unafraid; that the yield of our soil and the production of our factories have been abundant, enriching our lives and enabling us to share our bounty with less fortunate ones in other lands; and that the forces of nature are being harnessed for peaceful purposes, bringing limitless possibilities of comfort and happiness both to ourselves and to future generations...
...British and French, who are unhappily halted in a narrow peninsula at Port Said and along a soo-yard strip running halfway down the canal. Despite the fact that the U.N. cease-fire resolution called for the immediate departure of all foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
...takes U.S. schoolbook history a generation back from where it usually starts. His brilliant sketch of turbulent 17th century England explains just how the Puritans on the run, gentlemen adventurers and refugees got their start in the New World, and what they had in mind when they touched American soil...
...from Denmark, Norway, Canada, Colombia. Finland. India and Sweden, for the hop into the Suez area. As they got set. Russia put out a warning that its "volunteers'" would be "allowed" to go into the Middle East un less the British, French and Israeli forces withdrew from Egyptian soil. Red China joined in with talk of 250,000 "volunteers" (the difficulty of transporting them to Egypt boggled the imagination...
...cotton, oats, tobacco. 55 acres of corn, put some land in pasture. and steadfastly brushed off his family's insistence that he go to college. (He finally went, stayed a quarter, then quit.) He pushed a soil-conservation program, fenced the farm, terraced the land and planted good, soil-building cover crops; soon he had a well-managed farm with a net worth of $17,145. Said his old teacher: "He's not an exceptional fellow, but he's eager to learn and determined to be the best farmer in the whole country. For its size...