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...When Benson went to Europe," thundered Republican Congressman Usher Burdick last week, "we made a mistake by buying him a return ticket." Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had curdled North Dakota's Burdick by announcing that federal price supports on milk and butterfat would be cut to the legal minimum, 75% of parity, on April 1. Current support levels: 83% for milk, 80% for butterfat. The cuts were needed, explained Benson, to shrink the "incentive for excessive production...
...have grown to gigantic size, with consequences which the authors of the Constitution could not even imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...
...this point the member just about abandons all hope of.coming out of the session with complete mental balance," North Dakota Congressman Usher Burdick wrote to his constituents about the frantic last days. "People who want this or that bill swarm the Capitol in person or flood the Congressmen with letters and telegrams, some even threatening members with political extinction unless ..." Amid the tumult and turmoil the Congress nevertheless got plenty of action (or inaction) on "this or that bill...
...this first-novel winner of the Houghton Mifflin award, Author Burdick gives a reverse twist to the cozy U.S. sociological convention that coarse, conservative fathers produce sensitive, nonconformist sons. It is a study of Mike Freesmith, whose father was a radical so militant he once smashed the family Christmas tree into bourgeois smithereens. To contrast his old man, Mike determines to become a "big wheeler and dealer." He starts rolling as a clean-limbed, sexually limber nihilist on a surfboard off the coast of South ern California. He is supposed to be getting an education; instead he is educating...
...Novelist Burdick, who teaches political theory at the University of California, says that he originally intended his novel as "a study on the 'irrational' trends in politics," but it grew into a portrait of one man, Mike. As a novel, it has its structural and narrative faults. Still, it stands by itself as a disquieting, often fascinating portrait of a recognizable type of politician, a type who in real life, perhaps unfortunately, usually lacks a friend willing to dispose...