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...protectionist approach"-a web of price supports and production controls designed to keep farm incomes up and output down (TIME, June 29). But this approach has failed: despite the burdensome costs of U.S. farm programs, farm incomes have lagged substantially behind the growth of U.S. per capita income...
...library (I might point out that the library last year spent $200 per student, compared with Harvard's $317, Yale's $241, Oberlin's $115, and the less than $100 at most state universities; of all the institutions, only a small portion spent more than $50 per capita). He praises the rapid expansion of Brandeis' graduate program, and the absence of scholarships for athletes. "Brandeis established itself in the very center of academic affluence and, by a combination of competitive salaries and wise appeals, secured and has maintained a superior staff...
...price raise in the cost of meat. One result that astonished the authorities was that villagers began buying enormous quantities of bread, whose price had remained unchanged. In a typical village, bread sales in state stores abruptly rose to eleven tons a day, or well over 3 lbs. per capita for the 6,500 inhabitants. Investigators soon discovered that cheap bread was being converted into expensive meat by the simple process of feeding loaves to pigs, cattle and poultry...
...base them on democracy and free enterprise at home. He understands the challenge, for the tao, with whom Macapagal identifies, are desperately poor, unlike the top 10% of the Filipinos who receive nearly half the nation's personal income. An estimated 5,000,000 peasants have a per capita income of only $27 a year, which means malnutrition and rags. Unemployment and underemployment...
...pittance; in Spain, one-hundredth of the population still owns half of the land. Five million Spanish peasants use no mechanized farm tools at all; as they helped bring in the harvest last week, they had, as the Spanish saying goes, "only their hands." Spain's per capita income is the second lowest, next to Portugal, in Western Europe. Most Madrid families can no longer afford even the lowest-price (80?) seats at the bullfights, now go more and more to the soccer games, where admission is cheaper. Many people take on two jobs, one in the morning, another...