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Unpromising Start. Secretary Freeman's first important official act was to raise price supports on cotton. That was a highly unpromising start. By upping the support level, Freeman widened the gap between the U.S. price and the world price, worsened the competitive disadvantage of U.S. textile makers. His next step was to raise price supports on dairy products. With the milk-butter-cheese glut worsening, Freeman has since retreated and lowered the dairy supports. His current program for dairy products consists of trying to promote the consumption of milk by persuading the President and New Frontier officials...
...margin of the final score wouldn't indicate it, Loyola had some tense moments against the Blue Devils. Paced by the shooting and rebounding of junior Les Hunter, the Ramblers grabbed an early 22-6 margin and coasted until late in the game. But Duke battled back, closing the gap to 74-71 with 4:20 left, and it looked as if the Blue Devils might be able to chalk up their 21st straight...
...Gap. Confusing? Of course. But no more confusing than the rest of the continuing Cuba controversy. In what may rank as the silliest statement made so far about that controversy, Texas' Democratic Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee, called on the Administration, Senators and Congressmen to stop answering questions about Cuba. "There has been talk of an intelligence gap," said Mahon. "There is an intelligence gap. The gap is in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing the secrets of the intelligence operations of the U.S. Government." It was "outrageous," he said. "Critics have...
Miss Liebhafsky said that she was relying on contributions by philanthropic foundations to fill the $25,000 to $30,000 gap which now exists. The group has sent appeals to over 200 foundations, business corporations, and personal acquaintances of Project members...
That is what I assume Babe is getting at, and unfortunately it all sounds much better than it is. The first act charmingly and subtly presages the fourth, but a prodigious deal of dross is stuffed to fill the gap between them. Characters pass the time mysteriously hiding information from each other in innumerable false suspenses, or alternatively describing over and over what has been going on. When these devices begin to wear thin, Babe returns to the stage a crew of tedious mystics who repeat each other's lines after the familiar pattern of the Western--you know...