Word: rigidities
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...Chairman Harold D. Cooley of the House Agriculture Committee declared that Benson "won't get to first base" with his proposal to lower the support floor under basic crops from 75% of parity to 60%. Instead, vowed North Carolinian Cooley, Democrats will push for a return to rigid 90% supports-a tried-and-true method of boosting farm surpluses...
Lester Pearson, Canadian ex-External Affairs chief and Nobel Peace Prizewinner: "No progress will be made if one side merely shouts 'coexistence' . . . while the other replies 'no appeasement' . . . Our policy and diplomacy is becoming as rigid and defensive as the trench warfare of 40 years ago . . ." There ought to be "frank, serious and complete exchanges of views-especially between Moscow and Washington-through diplomatic and political channels...
...into the heart of the Deep South, spoke at Jackson, Miss, in support of the Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision,* nonetheless won a standing ovation and the presidential blessings of Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Kennedy rolled through the Midwest, where his Senate vote against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports had cost him the vice-presidential nomination, and came out with the support of Kansas' up-and-coming Democratic Governor George Docking. Says a top Oklahoma party strategist: "I have been moving around the state for the last couple of months, just looking...
...During the 1956 Senate session, Kennedy was warned three separate times by Democratic leaders that his vote against high, rigid farm supports would cost him a place on the national ticket. But Kennedy, convinced that Democratic farm policy had been a failure, was willing to try flexible supports. Now he takes the position that they too have flopped...
...fill; but who seems altogether resolved to go his own way, even if he lose his way in the process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband (Art Carney) and an eleven-year-old daughter born with six fingers on one hand. Beyond having brought the girl up to feel like someone with two heads, and having kept her away from school and other children...