Word: bureau
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...across the Avenue of the Americas from Radio City Mu sic Hall, may seem to be a long way from the farm. Yet there was more than a touch of nostalgia among the reporting-writing-editing team that worked on this week's cover story about American Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman...
...after midnight Aug. 26, 1965, subject to the draft. The order triggered a minor stampede of couples hurrying to get married before midnight. Nevada, where couples can marry as soon as they obtain a license, was inundated by lovers, who queued 300 deep before the open-all-night marriage bureau...
...farmers live off "sugarplum subsidies" rather than the honest fruits of the soil. Unfashionably, by today's standards, Shuman distrusts government in any form, spurns its handouts. "Farming's Freedom Fighter," as he is often called, Shuman is president of the 1,647,455-member American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest and most influential general farm organization...
Lost Prototype. Shuman and the Farm Bureau want far more than greater freedom or higher prices for the farmers. Essential to their philosophy is a dream of restoring the U.S. farmer's lost image as the prototypical American, the sturdy pioneer who fed the nation's body and nourished its spirit with his fierce independence, his self-reliance, his courage. It is an image that burns brightly in the American imagination, an ideal rooted in the precepts of Jeffersonian democracy and articulated in the economics of Adam Smith-and it is sadly lacking on the U.S. scene today...
...Farm Bureau argues that acreage allotments for wheat and feed grains should be dropped, that support prices should be pegged to the equivalent of the average world market price for the past three years (for wheat, $1.38 a bushel; for corn, $1), and that the Government should be prohibited from selling its surplus stocks at less than 125% of the support price, allowing the market price to rise above the support level. The Bureau even faults the new cropland retirement plan, though that has long been one of the organization's pet schemes for whittling down surpluses...