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From Maine to California, the Republicans last week kicked off their 1958 congressional campaign in a big display of televised speechmaking, with Dwight Eisenhower as the evening's coaxial keynoter. The President flew into Chicago in a snowstorm, sat down to a $100-a-plate dinner (cold roast beef and string beans) with 5,400 Republicans at the huge International Amphitheater. In a twelve-minute address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said...
...premium (as much as 50? per cwt.) over the delivery day's average market price. The packer can pay this premium because under the contract the farmer follows expert advice on breeding and feeding, gets leaner pork, which brings higher retail prices and competes better with beef. With marketing risks removed, farmers can deliver more pork-on-the-hoof. Packers have shown hog-raisers how to take a unit of 33 breed sows, breed eleven of them every two months and over a year deliver 500 hogs to market in six marketings as opposed to the old rate...
...Cheese & Beef. Two massive budget items, unchanged from 1958 levels, can be chalked up to past national defense: $5 billion for veterans and $7.9 billion for interest on the national debt. The total bill for past and present national security adds up to about $60.2 billion, or 81% of the entire budget, leaving a mere $13.7 billion for everything else...
...plays. The Browns took the kickoff and pushed over a second touchdown. The irritated Lions clawed back and scored on the next play from scrimmage. Even when their walking wounded came in for the honor of running through a few plays, the Lions kept right on devouring the fresh beef from Cleveland. They were still at it when the gun proclaimed them point-a-minute champs, 59-14. No team in the history of the National Football League had ever run up so large a score against Coach Paul Brown's Browns...
...Boasting half a dozen All-Americans to beef them up, the Eastern All-Stars charged into San Francisco for the annual Shrine charity game, ran smack into a squad of Westerners who had not bothered to read their press clippings. Led by Arkansas' Gerald Nesbitt, the West whipped the East...