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...director, has employed the apron stage with the audience ranged around three sides; and he has designed a performance that is becoming to the play and platform. Todd Lee's setting consists of levels, shapes and areas that culminate in a round peak against a glowing cyclorama; and Walter Benson's lighting plot is superb, indicating the range and richness of the electrical equipment. No doubt it will be years before the staff learns to use the full potential of the new theatre. The staff has begun by reminding us that its technical proficiency it great...
...opposes adequate civil rights legislation.* Kennedy called for economic reform, blasting the Administration's hardmoney, high-interest-rate policies, accused Ike of turning down needed aid for depressed areas. He defended his celebrated claim that "17 million Americans go to bed hungry" by shifting to Secretary of Agriculture Benson's statement that 25 million Americans have inadequate diets. A tax increase in the winter of 1961, Kennedy said, "under present economic conditions," would not be "desirable. In fact, it would be deflationary . . . cause a real slowdown in our economy...
FARM POLICY. "It comes down now to a choice between Ezra Benson and the Pope...
...trees). During a "transition period," while Operation Consume plus the expanded conservation reserve gradually cut back surpluses, Nixon would use a combination of price supports and acreage controls to cope with major problem crops such as wheat-a Democratic-style program of the type that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson opposes.* But once markets for farm products "achieve a new buoyancy," Nixon would shift to a Benson-style support program with no production controls, and support levels "based on the average of market prices over the immediately preceding crop years...
...Only recently returned from Europe, dogged Secretary Benson is scheduled to set off in mid-October on a tour of South America, in a sort of exile from the presidential campaign...