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...first time since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began buying corn to support its price (in 1933), farmers voted last week to abolish the acreage controls that went with the high, rigid props. In 26 commercial corn states 346,976 farmers voted 71.1% for a new program proposed by Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Result: next year corn growers will give up a system that paid 75% to 90% of parity if they planted no more than a Government-set limit, turn to a system that sets the props closer to real market value (i.e., 90% of the previous three-year...
...This was the first clear-cut, realistic choice farmers have ever had on the question of controls versus freedom of decision," crowed Benson. "Farmers are now free to plant as much or as little corn as they wish, with the safeguard of a reasonable support level. They have acted in their own, best long-term interests...
...Piano Prodigy Van Cliburn, 24, wowed a packed throng in Kansas City, caused a scattering of academic shudders with his theories of musicianship ("If a performer has to sacrifice something, he should sacrifice the notes rather than the inspiration"), allowed that he had time to cultivate some home-grown corn: "Jazz is a kind of form, not difficult, that helps make the evaluation of classical music even higher. I play it myself to relax...
...life in a way that is rare for their white compatriots. At moments of acute homesickness, an American Negro may stop at the Café le Tournon, a student bistro near the Luxembourg where he will find similarly afflicted friends, or-tempted by the thought of barbecued spare ribs, corn bread and deep-dish apple pie-he will drop into Leroy & Gabby's, near the Place Pigalle...
Following centuries-old tribal custom, the family called in a nidilniihi, a diagnostician who works by hand-trembling-but they fetched her in their own 1953 Chevrolet sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing...