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Volpe was quick to anger. In the same B.U. appearance, as the G.O.P. candidate was proclaiming his lack of involvement in politics, a voice from the audience remarked, "You don't have any experience, either." Volpe turned beet red, and responded with a full listing of his accomplishments, including his term as head of the Department of Public Works, where there was more construction in my last year of office, 1955, than there ever was before or ever has been since." He concluded, his voice almost a shout, "I have had experience in state government...
...general's belt tightening makes sense, but it has also raised unemployment and brought on a mild business recession. Unaccustomed to such tight money, Turkey's merchants have had to dig into their gold hoards to meet current costs. Farmers, promised cement and sugar-beet plants by Menderes, now talk openly against Gursel when there are no soldiers around. There is grumbling, too, over the fact that the army is still making occasional arrests for "antirevolutionary activities," a vague charge theoretically punishable by death and thus a powerful damper on the right to dissent...
Obligation. What can be done has been made clear in Colorado, where boys and girls called Juan and Carmen have stooped in the sugar-beet fields for 40 years. For at least a decade. Colorado educators agitated for mandatory attendance in summer schools. The state still has no attendance law: growers oppose it. But four years ago, the state finally launched the first of five summer schools...
Premium Prices. The U.S. has traditionally bought the biggest chunk of its sugar from Cuba, about 3,000,000 tons of raw sugar a year. This is more than half of Cuba's total exports and about one-third of U.S. needs. The rest is supplied by domestic beet-and cane-sugar producers (53%) and by 15 other nations under annual quotas. To all of them...
...Congress is expected to revamp the entire Sugar Act when it returns in August, may cut Cuba out of the quota system permanently. In any case, after allotting additional quotas to friendly nations and to U.S. farmers, the U.S. will not lightly return them to Cuba. U.S. beet farmers particularly stand to benefit by the cut. Their costs have long been above foreign producers' (the quota system is partly to protect them from cheaper foreign sugar), but they have gradually cut costs by improving technology...