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...traditional Republican heartland between the Mississippi and the Rockies, Republicans lost eight House seats, two Senate places, at least two governorships (Nebraska is still in doubt). High on the list of causes: the political unpopularity of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Taking over in 1953, Benson inherited a farm-policy mess that saw prices slumping badly while the Government poured billions into the farm economy. Trying to reverse the policy of farm government-by-handout, Benson was blamed when the agricultural recession continued. By this year, when the farm economy dramatically improved (TIME, May 12), it was too late...
...with-the-wind speech at the annual town-gown day in Big Spring, Texas (pop. 24,800), Johnson dashed off a list of likely congressional specifics: a depressed-areas bill, "an atomic merchant marine," bigger water development programs for the West, "a bold housing program," "jet-age" airport facilities, "courageous urban renewal," a mild antirackets labor law like Kennedy-Ives, outer-space exploration, "a consistent policy for Latin America," "bold, new, imaginative" foreign policies. He hinted at new attacks upon Administration hard-money policy ("We need to face up to the high interest rates which are slowing the needed growth...
...reading list will start with the French aphorists and include Congreve, Pope, Walpole, Sheridan, Stendahl, Henry Adams, and Edith Wharton, he noted...
...Graduate Seretary of Phillips Brooks House, Paul S. Sarbanes, has prepared a letter designed to eliminate from the PBH housing list landlords who discriminate in their renting policy, the CRIMSON learned recently. The anti-discrimination proposal will be studied by the PBH Faculty Committee within the month...
...proposed letter would not be sent to people already on the PBH list because, according to Sarbanes, "our turn-over is so rapid that we'd cover everyone in a few weeks anyway...