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...themselves, without special Government favors. But from then on one wonders if they really mean it. The "farm program," meaning a sort of package tying up' such things as price supports at a high percentage of parity, insurance, loans, storage and marketing aids, REA and soil conservation, means one thing to most of the farmers I talked to: a reassuring piece of insurance against disaster. To them, there is no insurance in a "flexible farm program," or a program minus this or that present-day provision. In North Dakota G.O.P. Senator Milton Young said: "A flexible farm-support program...
...there is another aim in the distance. Neither Nixon nor Knowland has to stretch his imagination far to see the White House in his future. One of them may well make it. There is no chance that both of them will. That is the real seed and soil of the conflict...
...streets. Paris had neither subways nor bus lines, and at its railroad terminals, thousands of tourists, including many Americans, sat on their suitcases and fumed. "I'm sick to death of these unstable countries," said an angry Englishwoman. "From now on I will never leave British soil...
...Rome decayed, Baiae (now Baia) became a scraggly village below a vineyard-covered slope with a few resistant ruins poking out of the soil. Antiquarians knew for centuries that fascinating things must lie under the vine roots, but there was little digging. The vineyard owners would not sell their land, until at last, under Mussolini, who would have appreciated the Roman Baiae, the vineyards were expropriated and turned over to the diggers...
Last week Archaeologist Amadeo Maiuri of the National Museum in Naples formally opened to the public a partially excavated Baiae. During 1,500 years, many feet of soil had crept down the slope or been nudged down by earthquakes. When this was dug away, some of the splendors of the gaudy resort emerged fairly intact. Facing the sea are 300 yards of villas and terraces. Some of their walls are still covered with paintings of nymphs and satyrs. Two marble and ceramic staircases lead to the upper terraces. Other finds: shower rooms, sculptures of amazons and a Venus, a small...