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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...
...Divide & Drift. All the signs are that he is-and that many Brazilians, disillusioned by what has happened to them since, are ready to take him back, even if they still think he done them wrong. His departure last August shook Brazil to its foundation. Military brass attempted to bar demagogic and leftist Vice President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart from Brasilia's Palace of the Dawn, and for 13 days, Brazil seemed on the edge of a civil war. To keep peace, and to preserve its constitution, the country finally let Goulart take office as President but converted...
...must take the risks. One day, perhaps it will have to sacrifice research funds, protection of its academic freedom, and the privilege of working with selected students. Dean Bender in his final report hit close to home when he asked whether the faculty, by letting admissions policy drift along aimlessly, will be willing to take a salary cut to provide necessary scholarship money or to sacrifice a faculty son's chance to come to Harvard...
...familiar magnetic compass is another source of trouble; it is unreliable in the northern latitudes near the magnetic pole, and most North Atlantic flights are close to the top of the world. Gyrocompasses have a different affliction: they drift slowly from their true reading and require continual resetting. An error of 3° is not uncommon. Uncorrected, it can carry a 550-m.p.h. jetliner 28 miles off course in a single hour, slanting the course dangerously close to the track of other planes...
...truth is that most Broadway shows have long been as easy to attend as a movie; playgoers who merely drift up to the box office at curtain time can generally plunk down their money and walk right in. One night last week, for example, only three of Broadway's 29 shows were sold out by 5 130: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Night of the Iguana and Milk and Honey. (Since the most publicized shows are the ones that nearly all out-of-town visitors want to see. the impossible-ticket myth has spread...