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Thank you for your excellent article on Freud. It was put together with a maximum of skill and a minimum of partisanship...
...moral. In 1954, when Congress voted flexible supports for "basic crops," supports for burley were left at 90% of parity. To hold production down, acreage had to be cut and cut. By last year more than 60% of the burley tobacco farms in the U.S. were down to the minimum allowed by the law, one-half of one acre, a plot so small that it can hardly be farmed efficiently. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has a label for the process: "rationing poverty...
...tickets are to be provided by the Red Sox at cost, according to Sloane. The 50 cent minimum covers federal tax, a gate cut for the visitors and league...
Early this month hundreds of clandestine pamphlets began circulating in Spain. Trumpeted one: "We demand the vital minimum salary of 75 pesetas a day and equal pay for women. We must protest the ridiculous wage increases that have been handed to us ... agitate for the minimum basic salary and a democratic Spain." Some pamphlets urged workers to stage a demonstration in mid-April. Rebellious Madrid University students who had demonstrated against the government of Dictator Francisco Franco in February (TIME, Feb. 20) planned new protests of their own, timed to break out just as Madrid played international host...
...Spain's skyrocketing inflation, brought about to some extent by heavy U.S. spending in Spain, and in part, by the damage done to crops by this year's severe spring freezes. Last July Spanish workers took their case to Dictator Franco himself, asked for a basic minimum wage of 75 pesetas a day (approximately $1.77). Said Franco, a medievalist in economics as in politics: "Nothing can be gained if we artificially raise salaries. That rise would be followed by a corresponding rise in prices, and you would be much poorer than you are today." Some 700 delegates (representing...