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...Into Sioux Falls, S.Dak. one day last week trekked Democratic leaders from 15 farm states. Their purpose: to decide how to use in the congressional-election campaign the Eisenhower Administration's new flexible farm price-support policy...
Adlai Stevenson (Sat. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Speech from Democratic Farm Conference at Sioux Falls, S.Dak...
...offensive was keen and swift. Democrats found their handiest targets in Ezra Benson, whose plain, logical arguments won surprising victories for his program both in the House and in the Senate (see THE CONGRESS). The Democratic high command built up steam for a big meeting at Sioux Falls. S.Dak., late this month, where Adlai Stevenson and other top Democrats will commiserate with the farmers. The Democratic Digest, which sets the party line, slapped Benson's picture on the cover of its September issue, along with the dubious headline: FARMERS GET THE BUSINESS...
...outgrown. On such heavily traveled routes as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a Riss truck passes on the average of once every twelve minutes, day and night. Riss himself likes to escape from his business by hopping into his DC-3 and running up to his $200,000 luxury lodge at Sioux Lookout, Ont. He leaves Riss & Co. in the hands of his son Robert, who at 27 is president of the company and day-to-day operating boss...
...turned to three Menominees witnessing the ceremony and asked if it wasn't on June 17, 1876, that "you fellows beat General Custer." The President was wrong. Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn was on June 25, 1876; his adversaries were the Sioux. The three Indians, nervously eying the President's still-poised pen, hurriedly denied all connection with the massacre...