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...right. Outlays for dairy-product supports jumped 20% this year. Piled up in federal storage depots as of Dec. 1 were 12,500 tons of dried milk, 17,000 tons of butter, 89,000 tons of cheese. But politicos from dairy-farm states predictably joined Republican Burdick in bipartisan booing at Benson's announcement. ''A shocking injustice!" cried Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire. "A mistake!" snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken, an old Benson defender. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey: "Mr. Benson has taken the place of Scrooge...
Another symbol was the President of the U.S. in his courageous struggle, after three major illnesses, to climb not merely back to normalcy but to the surpassing heights required by the new day. Yet the magic seemed gone from the old reassurances, the rallying of forces, the bipartisan gathering of legislative leaders, the hurry-up new plans for NATO. These may once have been answers; now they were only parts of answers...
...advance of the Paris conference to help sell his friends overseas on the plans to strengthen NATO. Stevenson later had some second thoughts on the practicality of such a trip, and the idea died. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seized at the opportunity to present a bipartisan U.S. approach to the NATO sessions, asked Stevenson to take on a job as his special adviser (TIME...
...started again, Alaskans set up a bipartisan committee, headed by onetime Democratic Governor Ernest Gruening, to argue the case for unlimited exploration. Said Gruening, himself a vociferous conservationist: "The conservation lobbyists who get most upset are those who live in big-city apartments and have not the faintest practical notion of, where the moose like to live...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--Adlai E. Stevenson set up shop in the State Department today, apparently unruffled by some bipartisan sniping at his decision to help President Eisenhower strengthen the Atlantic Alliance. The former Illinois governor met for 1 1/2 hours with Secretary of State Dulles. Stevenson pronounced the session "very encouraging...