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DOWN ON THE FARM (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The role of the American farmer, past and present, is explored; then the cam era looks at the mechanical marvels of to morrow that will send more country folk swarming to the cities...
...year, those of Cabinet members from $35,000 to $60,000. (Last week the Congress approved a 100% salary boost for the President, to $200,000.) Johnson requested no new money for the U.S. supersonic transport and suggested cuts of $300 million in space spending, $540 million in farm-price supports and $120 million in foreign aid. He asked for an extra $743 million for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, mainly for its model-cities and housing-subsidy programs...
...bewildering speed of change. The fact is often stated. But just recognizing it is little help in trying to grasp the impact. In the past three generations, the everyday life of Western man has changed more than it did in the previous 2,000 years. A revolution in farm technology has shifted huge populations into teeming cities. Already 73% of Americans live on only 1% of the land; by 1985, U.S. cities will swell by the equivalent of five New Yorks. Mobility has scattered families and eroded the continuities that once cemented local loyalties. Great organizations are now society...
...President can mobilize the resources and skills of these organizations, they can be helpful partners. But they can also be effective barriers to reform. When their self-interest is threatened, they coalesce into political blocs that can impose vetoes on action. The farm lobby has prevented any realistic reappraisal of U.S. agricultural policies. Lyndon Johnson commanded the nearly undivided support of labor throughout his Administration, but he was unable to persuade the craft unions to modify their apprenticeship rules, which restrict the expansion of skills in the labor force and are, in effect, a racial bar. The business community...
...muster support, Nixon might chop as much as $2 billion out of dubious programs. First to feel the ax should be maritime subsidies, which now cost about $500 million a year, money largely ill-spent. Also due for pruning is the farm bloc's annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically...