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...next week's gubernatorial primaries is low-voltage incumbent C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, who is mending political fences and spending $750,000,000 for such public works as highways and mental hospitals. But standing by in case lightning turns fickle is Cincinnati Councilman Charles Phelps Taft, 60, brother of the late Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. Charlie Taft filed as a last-minute fill-in candidate when O'Neill suffered a winter heart attack (TIME, Feb. 10). But when the governor recovered and asked him to withdraw, Taft refused. Instead, he promised to do no campaigning...
...Republicans one day last week promised to freeze farm props for another year at the surplus-building levels that cost the U.S. $3.25 billion last fiscal year. Already passed by both branches of Congress (TIME, March 31), it was a deliberate slap in the face for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wants permission to cut farm subsidies and make a start toward whittling down the scandalous farm-surplus problem. The argument essentially was between principle and politics. It took the Republican caucus exactly 80 minutes to stand foursquare with politics, to vote 17 to 14 for an unseemly decision...
...money into the economy. Last week the President ordered Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert Cole to speed up the spending and lending of about $650 million in funds already appropriated for public housing, urban renewal, public-works loans to local governments, etc. He also instructed Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to "encourage" the outflow of Rural Electrification Administration loans...
Shoulder to shoulder in Denver's Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers...
...newsmen as the most astute chronicler of the U.S. Senate-and by strangers is often taken for one of its members. Along with his polished daily reporting, Bill White has found time to write two successful books: 1957 Citadel, an admirer's analysis of the Senate, and The Taft Story, which won him a 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Letters. Last week Reporter White quit the Times after 13 years to fill a rare opening in the ranks of Washington pundits. Taking over from Thomas L. Stokes, whose career has been indefinitely interrupted by serious illness (TIME, March 24), White...