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...moved toward a decision on Capitol Hill last week, ancient Egypt's farm plan was drawn into the argument by the Joseph of 1956. On the griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
...morning last week Carlos stepped from a plane and set foot again on Venezuelan soil. Later the Arcayas waiting in Manhattan received a cable from a friend in Caracas: SPANISH MERCHANDISE DETAINED IN CUSTOMHOUSE. The cryptic message meant that Carlos had been jailed on arrival. A phone call next day confirmed...
...SHADOW OF MY HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half...
Jewish scholars and writers are showing an increasing interest in Christ as a teacher. Christians in their turn are more conscious of Judaism because of Jewish philosophers like Martin Buber (TIME. Jan. 23). In such fertile soil the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at New Jersey's Seton Hall University plants a seed of fact: Christ is the link as well as the difference between Christian...
That same day President Eisenhower wrote Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken, strongly urging the committee to turn down rigid supports. "I should be gravely concerned." said the President, "if the soil bank should be coupled with the restitution of production incentives." Later, White House Press Secretary James Hagerty threw out pointed hints of a presidential veto of a farm bill containing a 90%-parity clause. These moves failed too. After a 14-hour, table-thumping session, the Agriculture Committee backed rigid supports, contradiction and all. The vote was still eight to seven; not a mind had been changed...