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...Ways and Means Committeemen, Witness Weeks pointed out that the U.S. sells abroad 9% of all the movable goods it produces, that U.S. exports in 1957 added up to $19.5 billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries can earn dollars...
Hotfooting it from Capitol Hill to the Agriculture Department on an astonishing political mission, Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd and Nebraska's Arthur L. Miller last week tracked down Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. They had an urgent message: G.O.P. farm state Congressmen had just convened in emergency caucus and decided that either Benson must quit his job or 20 to. 25 members of the caucus would be defeated this fall as part of the mounting farm protest against Benson's policies...
...election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George McGovern elected in the first place: the Midwestern protest against Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for proposing lower farm subsidies-which has not subsided one whit...
...stronghold for farm subsidizers, the vote was 53%, and on the West Coast it was 58%. Even in the Central states, 43% of the farmers voting preferred no Government help-probably not enough to influence G.O.P. Corn Belt Congressmen, who are still determined to plow under Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson for advocating reduced price supports...
...least 35 of the students who gathered for the special class at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Ore. last week had reason to feel a little ill at ease. They were all local high-school teachers, and there they were with 45 of the brightest boys and girls in town, taking a course as if they were still in their teens. "Let us not let our blood pressure go up." said Instructor William Matson soothingly. "Let us not let our hearts beat too fast." Then he began his lecture on the complexities of modern mathematics...