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After House Republicans recently blocked a Democratic farm bill that called for high supports on corn, cotton and rice, Speaker Sam Rayburn angrily announced that no farm legislation would be forthcoming this session. Growled he: "We have been up and down this hill as many times as I care to go." But last week Mr. Sam was up the hill again, pushed there by political pressure from Southern planters, who knew that congressional failure to pass a farm bill would mean automatic cutbacks in next year's acreage allotments. The House, following Mr. Sam to the hilltop, last week...
...brusquely vetoed. Then 1958's farm prosperity (TIME, May 12) began splitting the congressional farm bloc: the House refused even to consider a wild, catchall Democratic farm bill, and the Senate passed a strong bill which would 1) significantly lower price supports, and 2) loosen acreage controls for corn, cotton, rice and grains. Benson pronounced himself satisfied with the Senate bill-and fought to keep the House from diluting it. Speaker Sam Rayburn got mad at Benson's persistence, refused to force the farm bill to the floor. Unless Rayburn changes his mind, the 85th Congress rates...
There was Dody Goodman, corn-fed elf and professional birdbrain, whose irrelevance and irreverence were fun until Paar got rid of her in an unseemly family squabble (TIME, March 24). Elsa Maxwell appeared for weekly off-with-their-heads chats, chopped at so many well-known necks (including Winchell's, Presley's, Princess Grace's) that Jack was only half kidding when he rolled his eyes and groaned: "Call the lawyers." For a few frenetic nights, Zsa Zsa Gabor leaned over her cleavage and rattled her host into some now famous fluffs. "It will...
...Miriam Paar, Jack's pretty and patient wife, appears at poolside with a dinner tray-brook trout, corn on the cob, string beans, mixed green salad. Jack tops it off with a chocolate sundae garnished with whipped cream and peanuts...
Confessions of lost innocence are frequent. Writes Book Critic Lewis Gannett ('13): "I was the pure young man from a Western New York minister's home, who had never smoked more than a corn-silk cigarette, and tried to hold the freshman beer night ... to ginger ale. One learned." Artist Waldo Peirce ('07) admits that "Leavitt & Peirce was probably one of the reasons it took me five years to get a degree, though the B in A.B. didn't stand for billiards...