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...thousand bulbs were given to the 'Cliffe by Maurice Freeman, a friend of President Bunting...
...White House as well as out-got to talking one recent evening about bedrock allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce...
...seeking explanations for the food-price leap, everyone seems to have a scapegoat. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman puts at least part of the blame on the housewife. After all, Freeman notes, she insists on buying such processed meals as TV dinners, when the same ingredients would cost her one-third as much if she were willing to cook for herself. The housewife tends to castigate the retail groceryman. Says New York City Markets Commissioner Samuel J. Kearing Jr.: "When the housewife finds that she has to pay 2? more for bread, her immediate reaction is that the store owner must...
...what about the farmer? Secretary Freeman insists that the farmer is responsible for only a small part of the rising price of food. Figures from his own department contradict him. They show that since 1964, farmers have actually raised their cut of the housewife's grocery dollar from 37? to 40?; they also show that average farm-family net income has gone from $3,642 to $4,785 in the past two years...
Food for Confusion. There were other even more immediate straws of inflation in the wind. Food prices are up all around the country. Last week Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman traveled to New York for a well-publicized look at the high price of food in the nation's biggest metropolitan area (an Agriculture Department spokesman, trying to stress the significance of Freeman's visit, rather ineptly announced that the Secretary was so concerned that he had already been "watching the situation for the last two days"). Leaving New York, Freeman said only that he had asked the Federal...