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...raises another set of unanswered questions. Council members are at a loss when asked about such matters as the NSA budget, salaries of student officers, and revenue from dues and other assets. Critics of the group maintain that it is run by "a tight core of Midwestern professional students;" and this claim has never been proved true or false...
...explanations came in the wake of mounting debate on whether NSA services were relevant to Student Council problems, or whether the organization was geared to the concerns of large midwestern universities...
...FIELD OF VISION, by Wright Morris (251 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), takes a handful of "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners, sits them in the stands of a Mexican bull ring, and has them re-fight the few past moments of truth in their lives. What dies in the ring is flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile...
...from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...
...markets. We helped the lowest-income people in agriculture. We brought social security for the first time to operators of family farms. We refunded to farmers the $60 million-a-year federal tax on farm gasoline. We started the great St. Lawrence Seaway project-the 30-year dream of Midwestern farm families . . . And we turned prices back up-without...