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...become intolerably expensive (cost in fiscal 1959: $7 billion). But none of the presidential hopefuls have as yet come out with a convincing agenda for cleaning up the mess. Humphrey has unveiled a four-point "charter of hope for agriculture," and Kennedy and Symington have outdone him with rival six-point programs, but all three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration insiders say that Nixon, with...
...varsity, on the other hand, walks onto the field as John Yovicsin's most successful and most promising outfit. With the Crimson rated a six-point favorite, it is Dartmouth who will be primed for an upset...
...despite all the efforts to placate them, Arabs responded to the President's six-point plan with a surly refusal to discuss any constructive steps until U.S. and British troops get out of Lebanon and Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS). Because of this foreseeable Arab attitude, plus the fact that the U.S. has only one vote out of 81, it was predictable that the General Assembly would not, at the current emergency session at least, adopt any detailed program for carrying out the U.S.'s six points. All the U.S. could expect-and all the Administration expected...
...varsity's fine attack corps of Dub Mallonee, Jerry Pyle, Nick Lamont and Fran Loewald represents the Crimson's chief hope for an upset. Mallonee, in spite of his six-point outburst last Wednesday, can be quite erratic. If he is hot, the game may be very close; if he is not, Pyle, Lamont and Loewald will not be able to do it alone...
...gloom, the latest production estimates from the Federal Reserve showed a three-point drop to 130 on the index in February, a total six-point decline since the first of the year. All told, industrial production was down 17 points from the 1956 peak, a slightly bigger drop than during the 1953-54 recession...