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Ever since he took over as Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson has been preaching more free enterprise and less Government subsidy-a doctrine that is unpopular among some farmers. This week Ezra Benson brought his message to the American Dairy Association convention in Chicago. In so doing, he put his head boldly into the cow's mouth; a vociferous part of the dairy industry thinks it desperately needs price supports. Benson's case was that price supports are responsible for the industry's present ills and that the dairymen would never solve their problems as long...
...Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper-he might get a boost later...
...Caius answered:] "It is the duty of the government to provide the necessities of life at a price the poor can afford; once you start doing that you have to fix the price of a good many other things as well, and compel people to work at the unpopular trades that lose money...
...Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart as a matter of sentiment rather than performance...
...King Is Ill. To a seething Belgian Parliament, Premier Van Houtte presented a doctor's certificate. "The King," he pleaded, "is seriously ill." But the opposition's No. 1 target was not His Majesty, but the unpopular "Shrimp Queen." "Madame de Réthy, we are sure," snapped the Socialist Le Peuple, "was primarily responsible for this detestable incident. She is exercising a palace influence to which she has no right." Furthermore, said Le Peuple, her opennecked blouses and slacks are "provocative" and her behavior "indiscreet and boisterous. The government must regulate her status...