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...foreign soil, the Crimson revived the ghost of early season promise, scoring three times in the first period, four in the second, one in the third, and five in the fourth. "A well deserved win," said Coach Bruce Munro...
...philosophical. Republican leaders meeting in Washington (see below) began to perk up after initial despondency. The President, they figured, had pulled the rug from under the Democrats by his principle-over-politics decision, as well as by his offer of administrative relief to farmers and his request for immediate soil-bank payments. By midweek, House Republicans who had backslid on the farm-bill vote (TIME, April 23) began to rally...
Passage of the contradiction-cluttered measure (TIME, April 16) was a bitter defeat for the Eisenhower Administration, which utterly lost control of farm-state Republicans. It was likewise a pest-ridden harvest for U.S. farmers. The bill would establish the Administration's soil bank (much too late in this farming year), but also would restore high, rigid price supports to work at cross purposes with the new program. Said Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson: "The bill would seek to cure the farm problem with the very measures which built up the surpluses, which lost farmers their market...
Down from the snow-covered Rockies shrieked a chill gale one day last week, sucking up the powder-dry top soil of southeastern Colorado, tossing clods and pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...
German infantry division, he marched across 8,000 miles of Russian soil, was severely wounded five times, saw his division lose twelve times its original manpower. In The Cross of Iron, Heinrich does what a good war novelist should and few can. He makes the private inferno of his war roar all over again, but as if for the very first time...