THE WEEK

Mathematics 10ab. Quiz. The Soviet Union has announced that it will return the American fliers it has illegally detained, and President Johnson has announced that the way is accordingly open to more ardent relations between the two powers. Problem. Plot the episode on a graph, and extrapolate.

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman has seen Paree. He wrote this year’s major farm legislation as a cotton bill. It passed the House and moved to the Senate. In the Senate, a wheat bill was tacked on. It passed the Senate and moved to the House. Adroitly, Freeman has avoided extensive hearings on wheat legislation in the House Agriculture Committee, where the obvious objection would have been raised that the Administration proposals were substantially the same as those rejected by farmers in last May’s wheat referendum. You can, however, teach an old dog new tricks. Freeman’s certificate plan is voluntary this time. Those wheat farmers who choose not to participate are free to collect the Or Else: 70¢ per bushel penalty. On the other hand, those who do choose to collect the subsidy may pass it along to the consumer as a processing tax. (Or “bread tax,” for those who think in terms of the War on Poverty.) The wheat legislation seems a good bet to pass, because the cotton people are for it. The cotton part of the bill provides high price supports, which price American cotton out of the world market, which requires a subsidy to cotton exporters, which prices American textile mills out of the world market, which requires a subsidy to American textile mills.

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Mathematics 10ab. Quiz. The Soviet Union has announced that it will return the American fliers it has illegally detained, and President Johnson has announced that the way is accordingly open to more ardent relations between the two powers. Problem. Plot the episode on a graph, and extrapolate.

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman has seen Paree. He wrote this year’s major farm legislation as a cotton bill. It passed the House and moved to the Senate. In the Senate, a wheat bill was tacked on. It passed the Senate and moved to the House. Adroitly, Freeman has avoided extensive hearings on wheat legislation in the House Agriculture Committee, where the obvious objection would have been raised that the Administration proposals were substantially the same as those rejected by farmers in last May’s wheat referendum. You can, however, teach an old dog new tricks. Freeman’s certificate plan is voluntary this time. Those wheat farmers who choose not to participate are free to collect the Or Else: 70¢ per bushel penalty. On the other hand, those who do choose to collect the subsidy may pass it along to the consumer as a processing tax. (Or “bread tax,” for those who think in terms of the War on Poverty.) The wheat legislation seems a good bet to pass, because the cotton people are for it. The cotton part of the bill provides high price supports, which price American cotton out of the world market, which requires a subsidy to cotton exporters, which prices American textile mills out of the world market, which requires a subsidy to American textile mills.