Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson succeeded in winning approval of his basic idea in the 1958 farm bill, which set subsidy rules for the 1959 corn crop. It abolished acreage controls, lowered price props toward the level set by the market (support price: $1.12 per bu.). But instead of cutting surplus production, as Benson unswervingly predicted, the no-control formula encouraged farmers to raise a bumper crop. And, as Benson's own department admitted last week, it swamped by 600 million bushels the previous all-time corn record set in 1958. Reason: farmers boosted production to make up for lower prices. Result: more...
...years of international tension," began De Gaulle, "some signs of an easing of the situation are visible on the part of the Soviet world." Most important cause of the new Russian attitude, suggested De Gaulle, is the personality of Nikita Khrushchev, "discerning as he does that at the supreme level of responsibility," peace "is the supreme realism." But along with this tribute to his future guest, De Gaulle coolly offered the opinion that Russia had good cause to be conciliatory toward the West, since, internationally, the Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations of the Russian...
Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...intercollegiate level, the freshman football team will be hampered by the loss of their star half back, Bill Hatch. The freshman soccer team enters today's contest with one loss (the season opener) and one tie. It won all six other games. An undefeated J.V. football squad hopes to end its season perfectly by whipping Yale...
Approximately 17 scholars at a post graduate level will live together in the new center, now being planned by Jose Luis Sert, dean of the School of Design. In addition to taking courses at the University, the group of scholars--which will include Americans as well as foreigners--will have the opportunity for "informal discussion," Samuel H. Miller, dean of the Divinity School, stated yesterday...