When it comes to defending the horrendous hodgepodge of U.S. farm policy, Louisiana's Allen Ellender, 74, has long since learned that befuddlement is the better part of valor. Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee's twelve-year chairman had the unenviable task of introducing the Administration's 1965 farm bill. "I ask Senators," said he, "not to pin me down to too much detail." Would the bill solve the problems of U.S. agriculture? "If I were able to do that," allowed Ellender, "I would not be in the Senate. I would be Somewhere Else."
Somewhere Else was certainly the place to be. In...
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