Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nixon and Kennedy agree that the farm mess is the U.S.'s No. 1 domestic problem in Election Year 1960-and well they might, since federal farm programs cost the taxpayers some $6 billion a year and still fail to keep farm income from drooping. Last week at a farm near Sioux Falls, S.Dak., the two candidates presented their programs for tidying up the mess-and, incidentally, bid high for the wavering farm-state vote. Occasion: the National Plowing Contest, an annual jamboree held in a different farm state each year...
...with all their points of agreement, Nixon and Kennedy took widely different approaches to the basic farm problem of price-depressing surpluses. Putting greater stress than Kennedy on increasing consumption, Nixon called for a "crash agricultural-research program" to find "new industrial and other uses for our farm products." In Operation Consume, drawing on the old more meat, less bread approach to the surplus problem, Nixon had urged a program for converting surplus grains into protein foods. Under this program, farmers would get grain from the Government to feed to livestock and poultry; the meat, milk and eggs produced would...
...greatly expanding the "conservation reserve" (land taken out of crop production and planted to grass or trees). During a "transition period," while Operation Consume plus the expanded conservation reserve gradually cut back surpluses, Nixon would use a combination of price supports and acreage controls to cope with major problem crops such as wheat-a Democratic-style program of the type that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson opposes.* But once markets for farm products "achieve a new buoyancy," Nixon would shift to a Benson-style support program with no production controls, and support levels "based on the average of market prices...
Watching him go, President Ayub confided to newsmen that at least he had got Nehru to admit that Kashmir was a "problem." instead of brushing off the Kashmiris' longing for union with Pakistan as a mere "historical memory." Warned Ayub: "All the things achieved in other fields will be nullified if the Kashmir dispute is not solved...
...Image. Lott's main problem in early campaigning was his dullness. Stolid and rigid, with cold blue eyes and a piping voice that made him sound slightly ridiculous, he left his audiences unimpressed. In midcampaign, however, he switched tactics. He struggled to lower his voice a few notes, assumed the role of a wise parent, and at the same time began pepping up his campaign with vicious personal attacks on Quadros. He called Quadros everything from insane to dictatorial, said that Quadros' election would lead to bloody civil war, charged that Quadros was trying to buy the election...