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...fine talk of welfare, urban housing and the unemployed, the first U.S. citizens who are likely to collect heavily from the New Frontier are those old reliables, the farmers. Last week the feed-grain bill, the first of President Kennedy's 16 emergency bills, was steered through House and Senate. House and Senate differences will be compromised this week, but the net promise is for an increase in price supports for corn (from $1.06 to $1.20) and grain sorghums for farmers who cut back their acreage from 20% (House version) to 30% (Senate version). In lieu of grain...
...time, the Administration will try to increase the incomes of low-pay and largely nonunionized groups by such means as boosting the minimum wage for the unskilled and service workers and by propping farmers' prices.* In his first farm bill, last week, Kennedy urged higher price supports for grain farmers who agree to reduce plantings...
...George McGovern, 38, director of Kennedy's Food-for-Peace program, the other by Deputy Director James Symington, 33, guitar-playing, folksinger son of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's five-man team flew to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to offer grain, seed and other surplus foodstuffs as inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy's personal representative), visited food-exporting Argentina to reassure it that the giveaway program...
...Grain Trust. A continuation of Seeds of Tomorrow (1935), the novel deals panoramically with the forced collectivization of Russian farmers in the 19305 -a Stalinesque operation that cost 4,000,000 lives. Seimion Davidov, an earnest, gap-toothed sailor from Leningrad, is one of the 25,000 Communist workers sent out to knock the peasants' heads together and get the farms producing for the state...
...knew Oscar had gone to bed." By this time Oscar had come to have a paternally protective feeling about a basketball, once chewed out a university publicity man for casually bouncing a ball on the pavement. "You'll ruin that ball. You'll rub off the grain and throw it off balance...