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...adviser of Richard Nixon, Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, hit hard at the Democratic farm program. He said the system of controlling the market by issuing farmers marketing allotments makes for a "static farm system, unable to respond to change in soil, crop, or market conditions...
Against the fervent and dramatic urgings of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, the annual conference of the British Labor Party last week voted a sensational course: to scrap British nuclear weapons, to eject Britain's U.S. allies from airbases on British soil, to pull out of the NATO alliance and count Britain out of the cold war. The decision cracked the crumbling Labor Party wide open. It doomed the Opposition Laborites-who have failed to win the confidence of British voters in three straight elections-to further years in the political wilderness...
From the sidewalk, Herrera's new bank is hard to distinguish from all-the other international financial agencies that root their initials deep in the bureaucratic soil of Washington. IADB's planned capitalization is $959,476,000; by far the biggest share ($450 million) will come from the U.S. with the rest to be contributed by 19 other hemisphere republics* (see chart...
...bigger voice for farmers in federal farm programs. Kennedy said that the "soil conservation" program should be "administered at the local level by local farmers.'' Nixon promised to set up a farmer council to "advise the President on farm programs...
...called Chicago. It is altogether different to teach him the basics of social and economic geography-and then give him a map with physical features but no place names. He may locate Chicago at the junction of the three lakes, near the Mesabi range or on the rich soil of Iowa. But he has given thought to the matter...