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Last week, however, the formerly sacrosanct farm subsidies came under a surprising assault in the Senate. Rejecting the increases proposed by its agriculture committee, the chamber trimmed milk price supports, once the most sacred of cows. Protection for peanut planters was also reduced...
...version was even more generous. But the united front usually exhibited by farm-state legislators, in which each protects the others' commodities, showed signs of weakness. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms of North Carolina had his staff draw up a bill that mainly protected tobacco and peanuts, important products of his state. Senator Robert Dole of Kansas quietly worked on his own version, eventually adopted by the committee, which doubled Reagan's proposed subsidies for wheat and corn. Reagan further fractured farm unity by promising Southern Democrats, whose votes he needed for his economic package, that...
Helms was among those voting to trim the milk price supports. The next day, when peanut programs came up for a vote, he found milk-state Senators and others lining up against him. Agriculture Committee Member Richard Lugar, a Republican and former mayor of Indianapolis, came close to defeating both the committee's proposal to raise peanut price supports from $435 to $596 a ton and the system of allotments, which are Government franchises that limit the acreage on which peanuts can be planted. Helms was finally able to save the price support increase, but not the allotment program...
...incident in particular encapsulizes the sadness Oney found in Leary. Oney stopped into a bar--"a little tar-paper walled shack"--one evening and struck up a conversation with a middle-aged Black man who worked in a peanut warehouse. The two men became hungry, and drove some 30 miles in Oney's car to a steak house. But as the men got in line to order, Oney suddenly realized from his companion's confused look that his new friend was illiterate. Oney's discomfort grew when the two reached the salad bar--and he realized his acquaintance "didn...
...Michael Foot. Now head of Britain's Labour Party, and a man whose wealth of experience--newspaper editor, literary scholar, political columnist, book critic, and the most respected orator in Britain--he should make the United States thoroughly embarrassed at the previous occupations of her last three presidents: acting, peanut farming, and modeling (yes, Gerald Ford was a fashion model back in the 1930s...