Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health," said the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith of Palmyra, N.Y. Last week at Salt Lake City's University of Utah Stadium, 8,000 young Mormons in blue skirts and white blouses. Spanish costumes, tangerine and black jumpers or pastel formals romped and whirled through a two-night program of waltzes, fox trots, folk dances, tangos, rumbas and square and round dances and even some "toned-down" jitterbug steps...
Lion Fat. Like many similar efforts, the College of Medical Evangelists' search was bankrolled by business. In the hope that it would turn up marketable items, New York's Sterling Drug Inc. had just underwritten the four-year program for $240,000. Virtually all major U.S. drug companies had herb hunters afield, either directly employed or under contract. All their people have been enlisted as part-time hunters: when Francis C. Brown, president of New Jersey's Schering Corp., was in Port-au-Prince for the recent opening of the Haiti Psychiatric Institute, he heard...
...Jack Benny Program (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). One of the classic TV shows, now nearly nine years old, in which Jack invites himself to dinner at the home of the late Ronald Colman...
...Jersey egg farmers and their complaints about the egg surplus, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson issued orders to buy millions of dollars worth of frozen eggs from the nation's commercial egg-freezing plants as an indirect aid to prop up falling egg prices. The new egg-buying program is on top of $16 million Benson has spent since last October buying dried eggs, mostly for the Government-aided school-lunch program...
Government farm-support programs have also hatched new troubles. When controls on acreage cut the incomes of cotton and tobacco farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls...