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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Boone's own Kansas farm-bureau convention voted for the first time in its history to back a program 1) abolishing all acreage controls on wheat, 2) dropping price supports from today's $1.80 to $1.30 per bu. Nebraska and Colorado farm-bureau conventions voted for similar programs, in effect backed the position of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and American Farm Bureau federation President Charles Shuman...
Builder's Hope. Deerfield's trouble is not so much hard-shell racism as pocketbook fear. Many residents are on-the-rise young executives in Loop corporation offices who went into mortgage debt to buy split-levels (average price: $23,000) for their growing families. With the steady rise of the real-estate market, the tightly budgeted family heads (average salary: $9,000) hoped to break even or turn a small profit by the time their companies assigned them to better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder...
Closely allied with the revolutionary F.L.N., Chaalal, age 30, denounced the French for "massive repression" of F.L.N. leaders. "Although the French have tried to decapitate our movement," said Chaalal, "the repression has only reinforced our desire to fight for independence at any price...
...college football did not have enough to battle in student apathy, television, and high expenses, the University would be inviting more trouble by renting the Stadium to professionals. Fans who have no emotional attachment to Harvard football would much rather pay about $1.50 on a Sunday (the pros generally price tickets on a sliding scale) for the same seat that costs $4-$5 on a Saturday (Harvard, like most colleges, has a uniform rate...
...Stade also praised the new singlerent plan, whereby all rooms in freshman dormitories rent for the same price per year regardless of size or "desirability." He asserted that "it has eliminated the distinction between 'Gold Coast' freshmen and scholarship students, and has also brought greater mixing among groups of students." Last year the Masters debated extending this policy to upperclassmen, but finally rejected...