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...adviser of Richard Nixon, Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, hit hard at the Democratic farm program. He said the system of controlling the market by issuing farmers marketing allotments makes for a "static farm system, unable to respond to change in soil, crop, or market conditions...
Under the Democratic program, Fuller declared, the farmer would be committed to one crop, unless the government reissues its marketing allotments every year, or makes these negotiable. In either case, the result would be "socialistic in a very real sense, since any government bureau would have to assume quasi-judicial powers" in deciding what compensations and what revisions to give each farmer...
...Henry Wallace and FDR considered this same scheme, and decided it was unworkable," Fuller said...
...Fuller Backs Nixon Program...
...reflect Le Corbusier's warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned a dome to shelter Manhattan, and Hans Poelzig a towering, terraced metropolis reminiscent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...