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Secretary Brannan had urgent politico-economic reasons for wanting CCC to ship the grain. With the biggest crop in history piling up, much of it was without storage and therefore ineligible for Government loans, a form of price support. If private traders took over EGA buying, they would be likely to buy stored grain, pass over the other grain. On the other hand, CCC may be able to buy the unstored grain and ship it out before farmers have to sell it below support levels...
Futbol and politics are so tangled that sometimes it is hard to tell exactly where the kicking ends and the politicking begins. Each of the big sporting clubs that sponsor first-class teams has at least one prominent patron-politico to wangle favors, subsidies and stadiums from the government. So last week, when all football schedules were abruptly canceled, it was both a political and a sport scandal...
...think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...
...very helpful, have clammed up since the reinstitution of the Corn-inform. Like any other political party, however, they play politics within their own organization and can thus be approached individually. The trick then, as it is in all political reporting, is to distinguish between the real news the politico has to offer and the propaganda he is trying to put across...
Chicken Dinner. It took no professional politico to tell the President that both punches were wide of the mark. His criticism of the congressional investigations was irresponsible; as the onetime head of a Senate investigating committee he should have remembered Congress' inquisitorial duty. His swing at Congress went almost unnoticed: he had used the same punch too many times before...