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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed your cover story on the Farm Bureau's Charles Shuman [Sept. 3]. Shuman's farm philosophy is sound. His economics make sense for all of us, whether taxpayer, consumer or producer. TIME'S piece should help speed up a long overdue overhauling of Government farm policy. JOHN E. FOGARTY
Actually, says Tourist Bureau Chairman Louis Jeanson, 74, who, together with the local antique dealer, is in charge of the campaign, most of those hinky-dinky ditties about her were untrue. She was not a mademoiselle at all, but a tall, slim widow named Marie Lecoq who worked as a waitress at the Café de la Paix. Furthermore, during the four years that British and Commonwealth troops were stationed in Armentières, she was more virtuous than many of her unsung sisters. The ditty got its start, in fact, when she roundly slapped a British officer who tried...
...dozen or so of the U.S.'s 224 cities of over 50,000 population, the answer to the traffic problem is clear: more expressways. As E. H. Holmes, planning director of the U.S. Bureau of Roads, says, "Congestion isn't peaking up any more; it's spreading." Little more than 5% of all metropolitan traffic in most cities is bound for the downtown area; most of it is skirting the city. And for such as New York and San Francisco, the answer lies mainly in more mass transit facilities (although New York is preparing to build...
...Charlie," called Committee Chairman Allen Ellender as Shuman walked in. "How are you, Charlie?" inquired Vermont Republican George Aiken. Shuman has a reputation for having facts at his fingertips and needing no assistance when he has something to say. When Louisiana's Ellender offered to let several Farm Bureau aides join Shuman at the committee's table, Shuman
Crisis in the Making. Fortunately, Shuman's blood pressure is low, for there is little likelihood that the farm mess will be solved in the near future. Any substantial answer lies elusively between the extremes represented by Charles Shuman and Willard Cochrane. The Shuman Farm Bureau approach, calling for complete freedom in the marketplace, strikes a deep emotional chord but runs head-on into economic and political difficulties. Cochrane's solution, a farmer-proof system of mandatory production controls, defies the character and political power of the farmer...