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...drift toward a chaotic, inefficient, surplus-ridden farm economy," said Kennedy in his message to Congress, "will resume unless prompt action is taken." The Administration claims to have halted that drift last year with emergency programs-but its plan went awry. The Government's offer of subsidies to farmers for cutting their normal acreage of corn or sorghum was intended to cut feed grain production heavily at a cost of about $500 million. Secretary Freeman maintains that the cut amounted to 800 million bushels as planned, but the program's cost-$768 million-suggests that efficient farmers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Rigorous Prescription | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...tones, he was telling his rapt listeners what will happen to them after a Communist takeover: "They'll take a wide-bore revolver with a soft-nosed bullet and place it at the nape of your neck to blow your brain and your face into a bloody and chaotic oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Crusader Schwarz | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...President on his own seventh appearance on TIME'S cover, was Italy's famous portrait painter, Pietro Annigoni, 51, who made headlines in years past with his paintings of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. A vivacious and expansive fellow who lives in a kind of chaotic simplicity in Florence, surrounded like a Renaissance master with admiring students who call him Maestro, mix his paints, and fill in the backgrounds of his frescoes, Annigoni at first did not understand the need of secrecy, and soon the Italian press and radio were blaring out the news that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...tears down illusions -- exposing the world to men's eyes that he might be born again. The two processes are not combined accidentally; it is only because civilization is decaying that man is brought face to face with his greatest challenge; only the experience of a chaotic world forces man away from his naive comforts, leaving him with the choice: bigger illusions, or a total regeneration...

Author: By Randall A. Collins, | Title: Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

President Ngo Dinh Diem is a tough, experienced anti-Communist fighter on whose regime the U.S. has placed high hopes ever since he took over in the chaotic aftermath of the Indo-Chinese war. The U.S. has argued that some of Diem's highhandedness and autocratic ways are necessary in a country desperately menaced by Communist subversion. Even though without him the situation in South Viet Nam might be a disastrous vacuum, Washington lately has become increasingly disenchanted with Diem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Disenchantment with Diem? | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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