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...floods the crowded ghettos, choking the cities' power to provide jobs, housing, education, transportation, police protection, or even breathable air. Another 100 million souls will join the population by the year 2000, leading the Administration to see an impending social holocaust so dire that, as Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman put it, it will make "last summer a pink tea party compared with what's ahead...
...Freeman. "Without it, statistics would still be a grubby business." Where once all they had to do was count, and perhaps draw graphs, statisticians are now "programmers," with a mystique all their own. Unquestionably, for the moment, numbers are king. But perhaps the time has come for society to be less numerically conscious and therefore less willing to be ruled by statistics...
...Plow with Sound. Nostalgists still mourn for the days when most farm chores were handled by horses instead of horsepower, by men instead of machines. As Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman recently noted, they fear that the trend toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...
...heated session came to a boil when Freeman and Javits started yelling at each other about whether or not the Administration bureaucracy had "broken down," as Javits charged...
...Freeman, following Coles's report on Mississipi conditions (issued in June), drastically lowered the price of food stamps in the state late last month. These stamps are redeemed at local grocery stores for food worth many times what the coupons cost...