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...introduce myself. I'm Orville Freeman, the man on the end of the pitchfork...
...ROGER A. FREEMAN The Hoover Institution Stanford University Stanford, Calif...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had a testy reply: "Our farm commodity programs work because farmers cooperate in diverting acreages from surplus crop production into soil-conserving uses. Many of them do this at a financial sacrifice because they know balanced supplies are in the interests of all farmers. Commodity program payments are not welfare grants." Nor, he might have added, are many of their recipients exactly welfare cases...
...plant grass in the dusty, barren areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does anything until you have some trouble like this...
...week later, Post Reporter Eric Wentworth tested the same technique at a conference called by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. When Freeman said that his discussion of the Kennedy Round of tariff negotiations was for background only, Wentworth rose and replied: "I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary, but it's not the policy of our paper to attend background briefings." Freeman was visibly startled, but he refused to budge. "I'll withdraw," said Wentworth, and did. While other papers carried full reports of the conference, attributing it to a vague source, the Post ran nothing. Said Bradlee philosophically...