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Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who has been forced by congressional attitudes into taking half-a-loaf measures toward ending the farm scandal (result: a staggering $7 billion for farm programs this fiscal year), was swift to seize on the Farm Journal survey. Said Benson, speaking to 2,300 farmers gathered for Farm and Home Week at Cornell University: "Farmers recognize that the old basic-crop legislation is outmoded. It has placed ineffective bureaucratic controls on farmers, destroyed markets, piled up surpluses, and imposed heavy burdens on taxpayers . . . The voice of the American farmer calls in louder and louder tones...
...surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly on the ''warmth and gaiety" that the wastrel brings into people's lives. Loaf Sugar, by Konstantin Paustovsky, features an overbearing Soviet Organization Man whose mere presence "filled the air with weary boredom...
...hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity it is! When I look at the forests, and the clear water, and the children and the grasses, I just haven't got the strength...
...accident, how can physicians tell how much radiation a victim has received? Last week the Walter Reed Army Medical Center at Bethesda. Md. unveiled one of the nation's two "whole-body counting facilities." The patient, on a hammock sling, is slid into the machine like a French loaf into an oven, and dials immediately register how much radioactive material (emitting gamma rays,) he has absorbed...
Flying Down to Rio. In Rio, where he was comfortably ensconced last week in a $300-a-month apartment with a view of famed Sugar Loaf Mountain, Belle blandly denied that he had stolen a dime. "All I got," said he, "is $2,600-my wife's savings." As to the other $800,000 or so, Belle said unscrupulous former associates stole it. He also said that he would "never" return to the U.S. "I guess permanent exile is punishment enough...