PLAIN PEOPLE: Good Luck

The little French Canadian elevator operator gazed at his only passenger, a newsman who had covered the United Nations Food and Agriculture Conference in Quebec (TIME, Nov. 5).

"You are going away soon?" he asked. The reporter said yes.

The operator grasped the passenger's hand and spoke for plain men everywhere: "I wish your conference all the successes, sir, for feeding all those people."

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