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...baffles him. But on Capitol Hill these days, lawmakers are confessing bafflement in the face of the massive and growing farm-subsidy scandal. "I admit I don't know what should be done," says a don't-quote-me G.O.P. wheat-state Senator. Vermont's George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee and longtime farm policy specialist, shakes his head in confessed bewilderment. Louisiana's Allen Ellender, Agriculture Committee chairman, mutters, "I wish I knew," when asked what he thinks Congress will do about farm reform this session...
...most sports-minded families. Father Seymour Knox, board chairman of Buffalo's Marine Trust Co., was a ranking squash player, holds a seven-goal polo rating, combined with his two sons to form a powerful polo team. Nordy began learning the rudiments of court tennis at the Aiken Tennis Club in South Carolina, where the family has a winter home, took it up seriously after he graduated from Yale ('50) and moved to New York. For his teacher, he had the very best: tiny (5 ft. 6 in.) Pierre Etchebaster, now 65, a bouncy Basque who held...
...Such first hand experience with actual science is necessary for any educated person," Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, countered. Aiken supported the report's conclusion that General Education in the natural sciences must include detailed knowledge of some particular science...
Best demonstration of the new mood came last week at a pair of presidential breakfasts, one with 13 Senators, the other with 17 Representatives. At the Senate session, Ike sat-fittingly-with Illinois' conservative Everett Dirksen on his right and Vermont's liberal George Aiken on his left. George Aiken praised the President's record, but said wistfully: "If the Democrats had that record, they could elect the next ten Presidents on it. The Democrats are masters of strategy...
...Republicans discussed ways and means of moving onto the offensive. "I don't think we can win with a campaign of denials." said Aiken. The President agreed. So did every other Republican in the room -and that in itself was a rare thing...