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Secretary Freeman, a congenital optimist, has high hopes for the bill's long-range effects. If it is passed by the Senate as a four-year program, he says, "by 1970 we'll have Agriculture's house in order." Not likely, says Shuman. "It is bad legislation," he maintains. "From the standpoint of farmers, this complicated monstrosity won't increase income. It will simply increase the dependence of farmers on an annual dole of payments and subsidies from Congress...
Ecuador's Galo Plaza, U.N. mediator for Cyprus, once described himself as a pathological optimist. He was employing no such label last week, as he presented the results of a yearlong study of the labyrinthine Cyprus problem...
Western in garb and still gaunt enough to wear his West Point trousers, Hurd loathes the cliches of Hollywood westerns. He is no complacent optimist, recalling the Wyethian admonition that life ends before man can exhaust it. "A painting should be a prolonged and haunting echo of human existence," he says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer...
...tell, it takes quite an optimist not to see an awesome chasm between stages three and four. How does King envision bridging it? The answer was implicit in his reply to a student teacher who wanted to know what he could do about five white children who keep tormenting a little Negro girl in his class. His assumption is that when the legal and extra-legal barriers to communication between races are hewn down, people will begin to see that they're all brothers under the skin, that the same things make them laugh and cry and bleed. Agape will...
Inching Along. But Cleveland Coach Blanton Collier is an optimist, too. All he had to do was stop Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, the N.F.L.'s Player of the Year, who completed 51.8% of his passes this season. He even thought he knew a way. Noting that most teams played their defensive backs deeper than normal against Baltimore, conceding short passes in hopes of defusing Unitas's bombs, Collier decided to take the opposite tack-position his halfbacks a step shorter than usual, crowd the Colts' receivers, make them commit themselves sooner. In the line, he made another...