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...Insulations." Most important of the proposals: a shift, in 1955, to flexible supports for basic farm crops, e.g., wheat, corn and cotton. The basic-crop prices are now supported at 90% of parity. Under the Eisenhower program, a return to the principles of the farm bill passed by the 80th Congress, support prices would slide down to 75% of parity when a crop is in surplus, rise to 90% when it is scarce. The theory: farmers, with an eye on the support price, would base their planting on the law of supply & demand. To cushion the effects of the change...
...Forest, famed "father of radio" (because of his 1906 invention of the three-element vacuum tube), and still active in his own laboratory, got a cake and a kiss from his third wife, Marie, at an 80th-birthday party in Hollywood...
...Twickenham, England, Poet Walter de la Mare celebrated his 80th birthday with a promise: a new book of verse to be ready soon...
...Cincinnati to make a historic break with Orthodox Judaism. They formed themselves into a society to be known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, dedicated, as they saw it, to a newer, more contemporary vision of the Jewish faith. In Manhattan last week, U.S. Reform Judaism celebrated the 80th anniversary of this birthday.* More than 3,000 delegates from 465 Reform temples were on hand; the five-day conference of U.A.H.C. was the largest Jewish religious gathering in U.S. history...
...Senator has always headed the committee. The first chairman, in the Republican 80th Congress, was Iowa's steady, hard-working Bourke B. Hickenlooper. In the Democratic 81st, Connecticut's yeasty Brien McMahon took over, to serve until he died last July. House members insist that there was an "understanding" that the chairmanship would alternate between the Senate and the House. (They let McMahon serve out of turn because he had sponsored the act establishing the committee.) Senate members don't seem to recall any such understanding...