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During his two-day tour of Iowa, Symington pounded hard on a handy theme: the farmer and his problems. His own twelve-point farm program, he told a Democratic luncheon in Waterloo, is better and less costly than Ezra Benson's "phantom farm program." In Davenport, Symington turned his attention to the need for water resources: "In the dictionary of Republicanism, as proven by their plans and their budgets, the fate of a river is to flow wastefully to the sea. Democrats, however, believe that every great river offers a challenge to invest in a better America...
...enough, most of the Economist's criticisms seemed to be directed not against some U.S. admen with a happy ignorance of today's welfare-state Britain but against a transplanted. British-born adman who knows very well what he is up to. David Ogilvy. president of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, creator of the bearded snobbery of the Schweppes tonic ads and the homey British Travel Association campaign, thinks the Economist's criticism is true, but irrelevant. "I agree with every word of it." he says, "but the number of travelers visiting Britain has quadrupled since our campaign began...
...AGRICULTURE : he has consistently opposed Ezra Benson's flexible price supports, upheld rigid high price supports...
...Themes. In the final dervish week it was Humphrey who covered the most territory and made the most political mileage. Traveling in a rented bus, he drove furiously across rolling dairyland and rustic wheat country, punching endlessly at two themes: Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson's hated farm program, and Jack Kennedy's early support of that program. Local lieutenants of Missouri's Stuart Symington-whose strategy calls for staying out of primaries-publicly threw their support to Humphrey. Mildly anti-Catholic ads were distributed to 350 Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee...
...Kennedy his 6,000 plurality in the seventh. There are a few signs that Humphrey benefited from crossover support of Protestant Republicans (in Richland County, a Republican farm area, Humphrey polled 2,418 votes, Nixon 2,158, Kennedy 1,558), but mostly he exploited the farmers' strong anti-Benson feeling by trumpeting Kennedy's early farm votes for Benson programs. Supporters of Adlai Stevenson in Madison shifted to Humphrey and helped carry Dane County for him. Humphrey's labor strength was a bust, but he was cheered by results from Milwaukee's three Negro wards, where...