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When Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson took office two years ago, he announced his new farm program in much the same manner as a spinster discovering a new beauty lotion. Castigating the old rigid-price support program as costly and incompetent, Benson proposed a new flexible support idea which he claimed would cut wasteful surpluses while promoting farm efficiency. Answering Democratic criticism, he denied that his plan would lower prices for efficient and cooperative farmers...
Today, two years after the enactment of the Benson proposals, the Republican farm policy must be considered a failure. Not only have farm prices dropped to politically dangerous levels, but crop surpluses have not noticeably diminished. Although economic attrition may be justified by the fact that American agriculture is going through a period of readjustment, the Benson plan provides no long-range solution to the problem...
...Young and Beautiful (by Sally Benson). Laid in Chicago in 1915, this stage blend of Scott Fitzgerald stories concerns a teen-age beauty who seems, in her blasé posturings, an early Jazz-Age young thing. She yearns for the perfect love, and in the search for it no sooner conquers suitors than she brusquely casts them aside. At last she meets and wins the perfect lover (James Olson), but there follows neither romantic lightning nor satiric laughter. There is rather the chill discovery that even now she cannot respond, that the seeker of a grand passion is incapable...
...into production in 1940. Though Ford collected dividends in prestige for the 5,322 Continentals it built, it lost money on every car. When the company skidded into the red after World War II, it stopped making them. Three years ago, after Ford moved solidly back in the black, Benson Ford proposed that the company revive the Continental, and brother Billy was later put in charge of a new Continental division, given a new $25 million factory near Dearborn to produce...
Married. Barbara Benson, 21, eldest daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson; and Dr. Robert Harris Walker, 33, Canadian surgeon; in a Mormon ceremony performed by the Secretary, a member of the Council of Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints; in the Salt Lake City Temple...