Nixon and Kennedy agree that the farm mess is the U.S.'s No. 1 domestic problem in Election Year 1960and well they might, since federal farm programs cost the taxpayers some $6 billion a year and still fail to keep farm income from drooping. Last week at a farm near Sioux Falls, S.Dak., the two candidates presented their programs for tidying up the messand, incidentally, bid high for the wavering farm-state vote. Occasion: the National Plowing Contest, an annual jamboree held in a different farm state each year.
Kennedy ran into foul weather. The rain that had turned the fields...