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...their private, more candid moments, they were beset by doubts. "Realistically," said one, "we Democrats are faced with the basic problem that the votes aren't there. We made our score in 1958, when we had a lot of things going for us, like Ezra Taft Benson. The same climate isn't here today...
...price supports to the point where they serve as a safeguard against drastic price drops rather than as an incentive to overproduction. Production controls could then be gradually whittled away, and perhaps abolished altogether. Basically, this was the approach advocated, but not clearly and consistently pursued, by Ezra Taft Benson, Agriculture Secretary under President Eisenhower...
Honestus: Benson's failure to make any progress in that direction was discouraging. But there are some hopeful signs. The Kennedy Administration at least recognizes that the cost of present farm programs is intolerably high. And the House did reject the more-controls approach. The Farm Bureau's advocacy of lower support prices suggests that many farmers are disgusted with the present system of high supports and entangling controls (with 1,600,000 members, the bureau is the biggest of U.S. farmer organizations). And it is at least possible that the non-farmers of the nation will some...
Ostensibly for health reasons, McGinnis is turning the B. & M. presidency over to Vice President Daniel A. Benson, 47, a tough, savvy operating railroader who began as a New Haven yard clerk. "I don't have any heart trouble. I don't have any ulcers," says McGinnis. "But I've been working twelve-hour days. I'm slowing down before something happens.'' Of considerably more concern, however, is the state of the B. & M.'s health. By McGinnis' standards the road's financial picture has been improving: "In railroads, we measure...
Apart from Papert, Koenig and Lois, in fact, only one well-known adman took an openly enthusiastic view of public ownership last week. Sighed David Ogilvy, British-reared chairman of Manhattan's Ogilvy, Benson & Mather: "We here at Ogilvy own our stock at book value only...