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...prickly the porcupine is, nobody knows better than Ezra Taft Benson. He went to Washington in 1953 convinced that a dedicated agriculture secretary, willing to rise above politics and make himself personally unpopular, could end huge surpluses, high price supports, acreage controls and big Agriculture Department budgets. But it was Benson's bad luck to take his job just as the farm economy was about to feel the technological explosion's full impact. Under the impact, farm prices sagged. With net farm income sliding from $13.3 billion in 1953 to $11.6 billion in 1956, U.S. farmers were...
...build an uneconomic section of the line. Angrily, the Tories in the House tried to shout down the loan. If government aid were needed, argued Tory Leader George Drew, let it go to a company controlled by Canadians. Minister Howe bulled ahead; the Liberals invoked a rarely used and unpopular closure motion to shut off debate and whip the bill through...
...basic trouble stems from politics. With elections coming next year, Chile's Congress has balked at the important but unpopular reforms on the Klein & Saks program. The Congress refused a 20% cut in government staff, and government expenses rose this year instead of dropping, as planned. It also balked at an antitrust bill to curb monopolistic, inflationary practices in the lumber, paper, cement and tobacco industries. Meanwhile, the government itself hesitated to tighten collections of income taxes, which are high in theory but evaded in practice. And the armed services continued to waste money; e.g., the Navy still keeps...
Never afraid to speak his mind, Weir urged negotiations with the Russians to end the cold war when such talk was unpopular. Meanwhile he steadily pushed National Steel into position as the nation's sixth biggest producer (1956 sales: $664 million). When, after a severe heart attack, he finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive this spring, he was the last U.S. steelman still running a major company he had founded. Last week, at 81, Ernest Tener Weir died in Philadelphia of the infirmities of great...
Wrote Warren: "The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify, against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...