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...news leaked out after Nixon met in his office with Iowa's five Republican Congressmen-Ben Jensen, Charles Hoeven, Fred Schwengel, H. R. Gross and John Kyl.* The lowans, who sought the meeting to measure Nixon's stand on farm policies, blasted Ezra Benson, cited the painful and growing surplus situation and the severe drop in farm income (which in 1959 sank no less than 16% or $2.1 billion from 1958). They warned Nixon that the Democrats would probably pass a wild cornucopia of a farm bill that Ike would have to veto. The political consequences in farm...
...figures and information on attitudes to help him formulate a workable program. Such a program, he said, will be ready for a campaign plank after the Republican Convention, and hopefully it will be a good one, so that neither he nor G.O.P. Congressmen will have to run on Ezra Benson's record. Nixon added that he plans a hard campaign through the Middle West and particularly in towns under 10,000 population, where he can talk to farmers. Said Ben Jensen: "Nick,* you will honor every small town in America if you do that. That's where America...
...Elected at a special election last December despite heavy attack on Benson by his Democratic opponent (TIME...
...Benson, 50. Whether they are planning next season's treatment of Isaac Newton and the Age of Reason or debating the possible effect of Rabelais on a daytime audience, the associates always seem to have an impressive talent for making quality negotiable...
Into Thompson Hall at Teachers College of Columbia University trooped some 60 graduate students for a final examination on mental hygiene. Of those who took that exam last January, one was a ghost: a "Mike Benson" had been hired for $40 to substitute for a student uncertain of his own ability to pass. "Mike Benson" was, in fact, New York World-Telegram & Sun Reporter Alex...