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PORK PRICES will be boosted by new Government buying program. Including current lard purchases, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will make $100 million available immediately to buy pork for school-lunch programs and other nonprofit uses. As result, pork prices, which had slipped below $15 per hundredweight for first time since March, spurted ahead last week to $15.50 per hundredweight...
...Estes Kefauver, and between their assessments of the campaign ("Elated," said Adlai; "We are both very happy," said Estes), both pitched hard for the farm vote.† In language as plain as a silo on the skyline, Kefauver told a farmer-dominated audience of 5,000 that the Eisenhower-Benson farm program has been "one big flop from beginning to end." Stevenson then took over to charge Ike and the G.O.P. with "callous political perfidy," "self-righteous hypocrisy," "broken promises," and "duplicity" in dealing with the farm problem. Ike, he said, has been guilty of "transparent hypocrisy" or "just doesn...
...televised college press conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., some of the traveling reporters stood on the sidelines and slipped the college students headline-making questions. Prompted by a traveling reporter, a persistent student editor taxed Nixon about his failure to mention Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in his speeches. Would Nixon favor the retention of Benson in the Eisenhower Administration, and why had he avoided mentioning Benson? Replied Nixon: "When I go into the state where a Cabinet Secretary lives, I then give him his commercial ... I mentioned Mr. Benson in Utah . . . The first part...
...district in Manhattan. But in the race for the Senate, Javits must cater to the conservative voters in up-state New York. To win the election, Javits will probably need an up-state margin of 600,000. And so he has embraced Nixon, supported Dulles, and stood firmly behing Benson and Wilson...
...Bonnie Benson, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture, went to Roosevelt High School, which had 518 Negroes. Her sister attended Powell with 214 Negroes and 138 whites. The daughter of Allen Reed, presidential legislative analyst, went to school with 20 Negroes, and the three daughters of Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet, attended integrated schools. At Jackson Elementary School, which New Jersey Senator Clifford Case's son attended, there were 39 Negroes. Even some of the Southern and border-state Senators have become colorblind. The daughters of Louisiana's Russell Long went to Horace Mann. The daughter...