"This bill does not have a snowball's chance in hell," wailed a House Democratic leader. Echoed Vermont's George Aiken, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee: "If the Administration persists on this plan, there will be no bill this year." Work was still going on at the committee level in Congress last week, but Democrats and Republicans in both branches of Congress were already predicting a smashing defeat for one of President Kennedy's major items of legislation: a costly, catchall farm bill.
The controversial core of the Kennedy farm plan comes under the bill's Title One. It would give farmers...
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