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...long-range step-down of subsidized prices toward market prices, may help trim the monstrous program that inflated USDA's current budget to $6.9 billion. But, in the short haul, Benson's economy-seeking victory could become the costliest cornucopia in the history of subsidies.* In recent years only a small proportion (12% in 1958) of corn farms qualified for high supports by staying inside the Government's acreage limits. Farmers who planted more fed it to livestock, sold it on the open market-or sold it to the Government under a slightly lower price prop, which...
...give López Mateos' 1,000,000 new Mexicans houses and food, to raise the nation's standards of living, to lift members of the lower class into a better life at the same rate as recent years, Mexico must create 1,650 new jobs every day. In this task Adolfo López Mateos will probably cut close to the pattern of welfare-state capitalism that has given his country its great splurge of growth...
What went into cheery glasses all over the country last week was a good deal less lethal than some of the swizzle sticks used to stir it. So warned the U.S. Public Health Service, which acted after a recent party at Sylvan Hills High School in suburban Atlanta. As favors, the students received swizzle sticks topped by a little head fashioned like a Haitian voodoo figure. Within an hour, about 50 of the partygoers broke out in a rash, much like ivy poisoning. It could have been worse, reported the U.S. Occupational Health laboratory in Cincinnati...
...recent years thousands of the swizzle sticks have come into the U.S. from Haiti. The Chicago board of health last week estimated that some 10,000 sticks have been shipped into its area alone (luckily, no deaths have yet resulted). The board fanned out its entire force of inspectors, confiscated 6,290 sticks from Chicago novelty shops and taverns. It picked up more from recent visitors to Haiti, including 60 from an accountant who spent all week phoning friends to get back the 40 other sticks he gave away as presents. The Haitian Public Health Service also confiscated voodoo swizzle...
Actually, such a course would serve as "a clearing influence" to inform the student on the background of recent changes in Christian outlook, Dawson added...