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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, the President last week attacked that costly, archaic contraption, the federal farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year, and surpluses have piled up so high that the cost...
...replaced by army officers. The new emphasis on agriculture instead of impractical steel plants has resulted in the nation's biggest postwar rice crop. The previously soaring cost of food was solved overnight by raids on warehouses that proved heavily stocked with hoarded goods. Currently, Burma's greatest problem results from the thousands of Chinese fleeing across its borders to escape the iron grip of the people's communes...
...with multiple images of Castro, ranging all the way from the Christ-like idealist to the ruthless murderer. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews recalled how Castro had "whispered his passionate hopes and ideals into my ear," wrote stories that could find little to criticize in "the greatest hero" in Cuba's history. "Batista with a beard," scowled the Chicago Sun-Times...
...Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel. He wore it, he told me, because Roosevelt, Churchill and especially Stalin were mankind's greatest scourges, and because the Jews deserved to be exterminated." ¶Señora Orozco: "My husband was not only a good man who loved his family and thought of them constantly, but he was always relaxed at home, always serene, irresistibly humorous, and in every way normal...
...father's profession, but her love of Gaelic and the stage kept her coming back to Irish drama. Soon she was involved with Saint Joan, the role that has almost become her alter ego. For a starter she translated the Shaw play into Gaelic, but her greatest triumph came later on the New York stage in 1956. There, her Joan emerged as a thick-brogued peasant, tough and practical and yet a single-minded fanatic...