Fifteen members of the Senate Agriculture Committee gathered around their coffin-shaped conference table to consider the House farm bill and plowed into the task with astonishing efficiency. Behind their workmanlike approach last week was a revelation: mail from home has indicated that the farm revolt has been brewing less on the land than in the minds of election-sensitive politicians.
With this in mind, the committeemen shed coats and went to work, blocking out a Senate version that contained the soil-bank program President Eisenhower had asked for (but no advance payments). Plagued by conditioned political reflexes, some members could not resist...
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