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...Humphrey, watching the President's TV news conference, sat up when Kennedy announced four of five projected pilot food-stamp programs for needy families in distressed areas. The food-stamp plan, after all, was Humphrey's baby; he had pushed it through Congress in 1959, though Ezra Taft Benson had let it languish. But Humphrey's pleasure faded when Kennedy failed to name Minnesota as one of the food-stamp areas. The President mentioned only Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois. Humphrey quickly got on the phone, found that Detroit would be area...
...FARM PROBLEM. When Harry Truman left office, the cost of price supports and food storage was averaging $1.5 billion a year; when Dwight Eisenhower retired to private life, the cost had soared to a disastrous $9 billion annually. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's principle of a free market for agriculture was right, but he was never able to translate it into a workable farm program. Democratic Congresses, unwilling to give Benson what he wanted and unable to produce something better of their own, share the blame that Ike was more than willing to put on them...
...service when he resigned the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last September, took a post with one of the U.S.'s largest book publishing houses. He will be vice chairman of the board of directors of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. But retiring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who has had mountains of surplus corn on his mind through his eight hectic years in office, elected to linger in familiar pastures. Last week he became a director of Corn Products Co., world's largest processor of that troublesome crop...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Prominent Cincinnati Attorney and Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft takes the affirmative on "Should a Church Pulpit Be a Political Rostrum?" The naysayer: Roman Catholic Layman William F. Buckley, editor of the spiky, ultra-conservative National Review...
Time was when Harvard's presidential jokes concerned majestic Abbott Lawrence Lowell, whose secretary once told a caller: "I'm sorry, sir. President Lowell has gone to Washington today, to call on Mr. Taft." With President Kennedy (Harvard '40) taking office this week, Washington has a whole new Harvard joke book-not boffo Broadway jokes, but subtle, like for the initiates...