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...Department of Agriculture, jested that the farmers should not dump milk but should use it to paint the White House fence instead. Shuman suggested that farmers would get higher prices by bargaining with food processors through cooperatives than by depending on federal subsidies. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman took a different tack, suggesting that "perhaps consumers should be prepared to pay a little more." Though he talked of promoting "a little lovemaking between the housewife and the farmer," Freeman had the near-impossible task of raising the farmer's price for milk while keeping it at the present levels...
...find the money to buy that farm." Nonetheless, the farmer's resentments seem real enough-as the Democrats discovered in last November's elections. Last week, to demonstrate the party's concern, Vice President Hubert Humphrey-and Senator Robert Kennedy followed Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the National Farmers Union convention in Oklahoma City. Speaking for the Administration, Humphrey pledged farmers an "honest deal" in Washington. "It is time," he said, "that the American farmer received a fair share of our national prosperity. The gap between farm income and income in other parts of our economy...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brief, brutal encounter on a subway train that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching around a curve...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time it is LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brutal brief encounter in the subway that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching through a curve...
...volt jolt from the third rail. Adapted for $60,000 from LeRoi Jones's one-act play, the film describes in 55 minutes the brutal brief encounter between a black man and a white woman who meet in a subway car somewhere under Manhattan. The man (Al Freeman Jr.) looks like a young intellectual; the woman (Shirley Knight) acts like a maniac in a miniskirt. Smiling and snarling, she flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips and invites him to "do the thing" right there and then...