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...Reversed its budget-cutting ways (all four previous appropriation bills were cut) to increase Agriculture Department appropriations for fiscal 1954 to $1.08 billion, which is $8,900,000 more than the Eisenhower Administration requested. The increase came from a hike in soil-conservation funds, voted after North Dakota's crusty Republican Representative Usher L. Burdick told his colleagues: "Now, if you want to legislate yourselves right out of control of this House, you get in here and oppose soil conservation...
...hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes best about: the sun-drenched Italian soil and a small boy's growing pains...
...farms around Benares, India's holy city, are nourished by the sacred Ganges. The soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
Waiting for Trouble. By comparison, Feisal's Iraq (175,000 sq. mi.) is a land of promise. It has resources (an oil reserve of five billion barrels), money ($112 million in oil royalties annually), inherently fertile soil and plenty of water for irrigation. Nevertheless, 90% of its 5,000,000 inhabitants are illiterate, and most of the farms are in the hands of usurious absentee landlords. Communist agitators and nationalist fanatics are riding high...
...born in the walled city of Derry and, as a Catholic in Protestant Northern Ireland, learned to fight early. He quickly became a single-minded Irish Republican. In 1939, when the illegal "Irish Republican army" declared "war" on the British Empire, he volunteered to fight on British soil. He slipped into Britain, brags that he helped try to blow up power plants. De Valera, who thought the I.R.A.'s methods were no way to win Irish independence, had McGuinness slapped into internment camp for two years when he came back. Says McGuinness: "My stay there wasn't wasted...