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Wheat & Security. Why an election now? Mainly because Mike Pearson seems to want one. For the last 29 months, he has been governing with a minority in the House of Commons, depending on splinter parties to pass his legislation. Yet his Liberal party lacks only six seats for a full 133-seat majority. He obviously thinks he can pick them up, and possibly a lot more...
Like Greece. The U.S. farming community, never noted for consistency, today embraces almost as many splinter groups as the Greek Parliament. The Farm Bureau's biggest and noisiest rival, the Denver-headquartered National Farmers Union, is at the opposite end of the ideological and political spectrum. Headed since 1940 by Kansas-born Jim Patton, 62, Farmers Union has 750,000 members, strongly supports the Government's hand on the plow. Says Patton, whose favorite pastime is taking pokes at the Farm Bureau: "What Charlie Shuman doesn't realize is that we've got the welfare state...
...Trends. Since World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft was happily off on a vacation, there was no danger in Geneva of an embarrassing confrontation, although one World Council official noted that the L.C.C.C. is "just a group of hecklers that keeps following us around, collecting minute splinter groups of no real significance...
...Call them splinter groups if you wish," argued Mclntire. "There'll be more and more as ecumenism gathers momentum. Ecumenism is treason to the Reformation. The World Council's dialogue with Rome is a surrender of Christian allegiance to the truth; its dialogue with Jewish leaders follows the same syncretistic trends. Those liberals are going ahead without taking account of the people in the pew. That's where we step in. We talk to the people...
Last May, Kovac tendered his resignation from the finance committee job, effective July 1. Kelly came to suspect that Kovac was planning to go to work for Goldwater's new Republican splinter group, the Free Society Association-and that he meant to take with him some of the National Committee's valuable lists of financial contributors. As the date of Kovac's leave-taking approached, Kelly and three assistants made a nighttime raid on Kovac's office, spent 1½ hours rummaging around in full view of three finance-committee staffers, jimmied open desk drawers, carted...