Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed by Ike last November to review the nation's military-assistance program, the committee members did some on-the-spot reporting themselves. Chairman Draper, 65, once Army Under Secretary (1947-49) and later top U.S. civilian representative to NATO (1952-53), personally inspected forces in the Korea-Japan-Formosa area. Oilman George Mc-Ghee, 47, an ex-Ambassador, to Turkey (1951-53), and Admiral Arthur Radford, tough-minded ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1953-57), toured the Middle East. Operating in five such groups, the committee members returned to Washington, in March handed...
There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
...farm fight. For one thing, the labor bill that Ike backed seemed to offer effective remedies for the problem of labor racketeering. There is reason to doubt that Ezra Benson is offering an effective solution to the surplus-wheat problem, which follows the general line of the corn program he got written into law last year. Under that program, farmers were assured a slightly lower but still profitable Government price for all the corn they could raise. They turned up land that had not been used in years (TIME, May 25), poured on fertilizer, by last week were growing...
...million of its $100 million contract with the Air Force. The J-93-3 is conventionally fueled, is scheduled to go into both North American's B70 and its F108 fighter. Officials insist that the boron cutback itself does not mean a cutback in the B70 bomber program, but only an alteration in the bomber to make it wholly conventionally fueled, and that the cutback has no relation to the F-108, which was programed to use conventional fuels all along. But many aircraft men feel that both programs, which barely got into the Administration's budget request...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Part four of The Sand Pile is a proper companion for the preceding program: a look at the religious attitudes of contemporary youth. Special guest: The Rev. William Hamilton...