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Early Years. Son of a Texas cotton and dairy farmer, Bob Anderson worked his way through two years of college, then taught high school in home-town Burleson (pop. 800), and coached an unbeaten football team on the side, until he could save enough to start himself through the University of Texas law school. During his final year of law school, Democrat Anderson campaigned for the state legislature on weekends, was elected the day he graduated (with the best scholastic record in the school's history...
...handlers laid out fresh clothes as Fats mopped his face and clambered out of his tan silk suit (he owns 51 such rigs). The band got a quick dressing-down: "You guys ain't playin' wuth a cotton picker's wages-a real crummy beat." Then, turning to reporters, Fats philosophized about his wearying one-night stands: "Gold all the way, but man, they get old." Fats's gold standards are high: he estimates that he will make $600,000 to $700,000 this year, spend $60,000 on a house in New Orleans...
...much does the cotton support program cost taxpayers? Last week Lamar Fleming Jr., board chairman of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton dealers, dug into Government figures, came up with the staggering total of $1,156,000,000 as the cost this year. In a speech to the American Cotton Congress in Dallas, Fleming, a crusader for sound farm policies (TIME, April 8), pointed out that this is more than $1,000 for each of the 850,000 farms on which cotton is grown...
Much of the opposition to the soil bank is based on the charge that it is highly partial in whom it helps. Apart from the relatively unimportant conservation-reserve phase, the benefits are confined to producers of the five price-supported crops-wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco. Such crops account for only 23% of total farm income-leaving the producers of the other 77% totally outside the benefits of the price support or soil-bank pro grams. The soil bank has turned out to be a money bank for the corn belt and Great Plains wheat states, plus...
...itself listed $211 million worth of agricultural research projects now under way that could be pushed through immediately. Among them: i) development of powdered whole milk that tastes like fresh 2) a method to make newsprint from southern hardwoods, which would make up income small farmers have lost in cotton; 3) a process to extract fertilizer from chicken feathers; 4) a way to get from rice hulls 750,000 Ibs. a year of a special wax, now imported; 5) development of a host of new drugs, such as antibiotics from tomato leaves and hormones from...