Word: programing
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...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...
...safeguard" against future surpluses, Nixon's program would rely heavily on a proposal that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller urged back in late 1959: 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...
Bureaucrat's Dream. The program that Kennedy unveiled at the plowing contest was more original than Nixon's, but also more gimmicky. Kennedy offered the farmers something new, "parity of income" (not to be confused with price "parity," basis of much farm legislation now on the books, and a hot one that both candidates avoided). The concept was "clear," Kennedy insisted, but the way he defined it, parity of income sounded like a mathematician's nightmare and a bureaucrat's dream. "Parity of income," he said, "is that income which gives average producers a return...
Philip's greatest achievement was what he called the Oratory. It started as a simple gathering of priests and laymen, meeting to pray, read and discuss spiritual matters. Gradually it grew into a full-fledged community, with its own church and chapter house and a program for giving food and shelter to pilgrims. During the Jubilee Year of 1575, according to contemporary accounts, the Oratory opened its doors to 144,913 visitors and served 365,132 meals. The musical form, oratorio, derives its name from Philip's community, where it was partly developed by Florentine Composer Giovanni Animuccia...
...television. While that feared acetylene torch called overexposure has singed, seared or crisped one comedian after another, Red Skelton's popularity has never really stopped growing. At 47 he is the only comedian left on TV who has, year in and year out, sustained a live weekly program, and this week The Red Skelton Show (CBS) begins its seventh season, during which he will also do two specials...