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...controls and price supports for potatoes, one of the few freely marketable basic crops left in the national larder. And to the consternation of many, Johnson called for a return to part of the controversial and soundly defeated plan proposed by Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan in 1949: direct Treasury payment to cotton and milk producers...
...year. Much to blame is the government of demagogic President João Goulart, who hints that he would turn to the Soviet Union if the U.S. cut its financial aid. The U.S. continues to pour in money, will probably reschedule all Brazil's debts soon for easier payment...
...This is the most important document ever to come before a Church Assembly," said the Rt. Rev. Kenneth Riches, Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. The document is a dry, statistic-laden paperback called The Deployment and Payment of the Clergy. But behind that grey title it is an incisive, reform-demanding anatomy of Christian Britain and the Church of England...
...place where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless. The secret of survival in such a world, she has learned, is to smother every flicker of feeling. The old man appeals to her at first because he seems to offer her comfort in exchange for a minimum emotional payment on her part...
Opponents of overtime are really asking business to eliminate the peaks and valleys of production-something that management would like to do in any case because it would even out costs. But changing the regular payment for overtime from time and a half to double time would cost industry $46 million extra a week, and, with today's rapidly advancing technology, would not automatically lead to more hirings. "In the long run," warns Inland Steel Vice President William Caples, "anything that becomes expensive we eliminate-we engineer it out." The risk is that such penalties might provide the impetus...