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...Passed, by a 62-to-24 vote in the Senate, an Administration-backed amendment to the farm bill that would sharply reduce the price support for cotton and make up the income loss to growers by direct Government payments for acreage diversion. The bill still faces a Senate battle over wheat subsidies...
...shirts, including bowling-and softball-league shirts for many who can hardly wait to get out of the hall and on to an avocation that is as often as not company-sponsored. (Another style note: for reasons that might require the services of a mass psychologist, the old white cotton sock has given way in Pittsburgh to one of cardinal red.) No local leader will schedule a meeting in conflict with a really popular TV program unless he deliberately wants to keep attendance down. Observes Sidney Lens: "The members still have a loyalty to the union...
...Washington last week, complaining that Pakistan's modern planes and armor were supplied by the U.S. with the explicit understanding that they would never be used against India.* Ayub Khan responded that "we will spend our time dealing with the enemy rather than putting the American weapons in cotton wool." Uncertain just what was happening in the Chhamb area, U.S. military officers flew to the fighting scene to investigate the charges...
...F.D.R.s Lap. In scope and philosophy, Charlie Shuman's outfit today has little in common with the Farm Bureau that set out 45 years ago as a "wedding of corn and cotton"-meaning farm interests of the Middle West and the South. In the dire early days of the New Deal, when the bottom had dropped out of farming, the Farm Bureau cheered virtually every program it now condemns. It sat on Franklin Roosevelt's lap, busily buried pigs for Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace -even had a loose alliance with labor (in exchange for labor's support...
With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...