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...farm bill came to a House vote. The Administration had battled long and hard for the measure. It survived in the Senate last month by the nervous margin of 42 to 38. It got past the House Agriculture Committee by a single vote-18 to 17. Only a fortnight ago, its prospects of passing the House looked so dubious that the Democratic leadership decided to postpone the scheduled showdown so as to give the Administration more time to round up votes...
...stockpile burden. It set up a Cabinet-level committee to review the program, last April eliminated the veto held by five Government departments. The Administration has drawn up a long-range disposal plan that it hopes will lead to sales of more than small, odd-lot quantities. Last fortnight it announced plans for disposing of $600-$800 million worth of stockpile materials each year-about eight times the present disposal rate. But legislation will be necessary to put the plan into effect-and a lot of people who are fond of the fat cousin may fight to prevent him from...
Both leaders were in Munich fortnight ago to attend a conference of the European Movement, a group promoting a United States of Europe. The event turned into an exciting demonstration of Spanish opposition sentiment, rendered all the more interesting by the fact that...
There are a dozen possible royal relatives who might wear the crown, but the only serious alternative to Don Juan for the throne of Spain is his tall, handsome, newlywed son. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 24. Fortnight ago, he interrupted his honeymoon with Princess Sophie of Greece to present his bride to Franco at a lunch at Madrid's Pardo palace. Most Spanish monarchists are convinced that Franco would prefer the younger, more pliable Juan Carlos, when he becomes eligible at age 30 under the succession law. The theory is that El Caudillo still resents...
...join Europe's Common Market, maybe you can lick it by forming one of your own-or so goes the thinking these days among nations from Chile to the Congo. In Cairo alone over the past fortnight, the groundwork was laid for two new common markets; one would link five Arab nations, and another six African countries (Egypt judiciously proposes to join both). Africa, in fact, is building three common markets. Two more have been launched in Latin America, and an Asian market has been proposed by Malaya, Thailand and the Philippines...