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The article focuses on the problems in farming. The U.S. Congress has begun its annual debate on how much and what the federal government should do for agriculture. It has been assumed that arguments that make economic sense may not make political sense: any farm program that is adopted no doubt must reconcile the politically feasible and the economically reasonable. The reality in recent years is that farmers have become United States' most rapidly, shrinking minority, farm production has become a business and the rural life is increasingly available to people who are not engaged in agriculture.

This article focuses on the question of what is the Catholic attitude toward the American constitutional doctrine contained in the first phrase of the First Amendment, the doctrine of separation of church and state. In various countries of Western Europe in recent times the left wings of the Christian Democratic parties, evidencing a Catholic form of anti-clericalism, have contended that while it is right for a Catholic, in or out of public office, to be inspired by the church, it is not right for a lay organization such as the state to be manipulated by the hierarchy.

This article focuses on reasons behind the withdrawal of his name by Senator William F. Knowland of California from the candidacy for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 1958. Those whose speculations follow the classical style highlight the antagonism between Knowland and senator Richard M. Nixon that flared at the 1952 Republican convention, when Knowland held firm for Earl Warren as the presidential candidate, and Nixon tried to undermine the California delegation's commitment in favor of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The classical pose shows Nixon's rapid rise as an affront to Knowland, whose seniority is compounded of a family tradition of active Republicanism in California.

Focuses on Democratic leadership in the U.S. Decrease in dependence on the state parties as intermediaries; Adoption of poll-tax laws at the beginning of the present century; Opportunity after the Federal Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision; Statistics of migration in the US.; Dangers of Southern leadership in the national Congress; Lack of focal point of national visibility in the partisan party; Discussion on the rudimentary countrywide structure of the National Committee; Question on the kind of a party structure is required to mobilize full strength for a Presidential contest; Existence of unused party resources in some areas; Evidence of pressures toward a national party. INSET: A TWO-PARTY NATION.

Anticipates the future awaiting the aged in the U.S., as of November 1964. Life expectancy at birth in 1960; Reasons behind the decreasing mortality rate; Relationship of educational attainment with social security benefits; Legislation which initiate service programs for elderly persons.

Focuses on the preparation of political parties for the 1962 national elections in the U.S. Efforts to gain control of the House of Representatives; Information about the awarding of the seniority system to the Democrats; Establishment of White House consultantship; Comment on the Minneapolis convention of the Young Republican National Federation. Information about middle-income voters.

Focuses on the possibility of economic instability in the U.S. as discussed in the majority of the Congressional Joint Committee on the Economic Report. Increase of civilian employment; Role of the government in the improvement of demand; Proposals for a tax credit to stimulate business investments; Information about proposals for a tax credit to stimulate business investments.

Highlights the political importance of a debate over the national growth rate of the U.S. economy Future assessment of the national income growth of the U.S.; Relationship between the size of gross national product and the country's ability to pay for public expenditures; Display of a table highlighting the per capita disposable personal income from 1949 to 1959; Overview of population growth in the U.S.; Assessment of the federal expenditure and economic growth rate since 1953; Argument pertaining to the defense budget and expenditure in the U.S.; Impact of military spending on the U.S. economy.

The article focuses on public school desegregation in the U.S. South from a business perspective. Social unrest and segregation problems in Little Rock, Arkansas delayed further industrial expansion. The legal strategy in Virginia after the U.S. Supreme Court order to desegregate was a "freedom of choice" local option. At first, Charlottsville, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia chose to support their state's massive resistance laws. Topics include postwar economic expansion in the southern states which improved purchasing power and led to migration from rural to metropolitan areas, as well as five arguments against corporate political action in a community.

The article discusses the future of the concept of compact cars in U.S. The impact of foreign small cars on the U.S. domestic market raises questions about the future position of the American car in other markets around the world. The coming of the compact car shows that to more and more American families, their car has become a means of transportation. It is no longer a dream boat. A buyer's requirements vary markedly when he is looking for a vehicle in order to go places physically from what they are, from when he is buying a car in order to go places socially.

The article focuses on the socioeconomic conditions of the U.S. Former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a national issue of the fact that one third of the nation was ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished. Factors to be considered are effects of inflation, population growth and many more. The number of families who did not have more than $2,000 purchasing power dropped by more than a million between 1948-1954, but the consumer price level went up 12 percent in this same interval. Despite the rave notices given to the recent performance of the American economy, 14 percent of consumer units in 1957 still had incomes under $2,000. Today's one-third of the nation includes those in broken homes, lacking a normal breadwinner.

This article focuses on the recession in the year, 1958 which is also a year of elections. Within the past three weeks, the main alternatives for dealing with this recession in this election year have become visible. The President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower said that economic growth will be resumed without an extended interruption and that his budget and his economic report are based on that view. Tight money has not only been an economic fact of the last months, it has been a policy. For two years, the Federal Reserve has been a crusader against inflation.

The article focuses on the social season in London's West End in the Summer of 1956. The appearance of London, England's West End last summer, as the social season reached its height, was Edwardian rather than Fabian. Dove-colored toppers and morning clothes, floral prints and summer furs, turned Mayfair into a Cecil Beaton decor. In the land of Fair Shares, a doubtless limited but certainly conspicuous number of people seemed to have the good things of life in perfusion.

The article discusses the efforts made by the Federal government of the United States to combat growing inflation. The federal government cannot handle the inflation itself without the cooperation of the citizens of the United States. There seems to be some divergence of view on potential of the inflationary forces now recognized to be working on the economy. In 1946, the Employment Act placed on the federal government a broad measure of responsibility for the country's economic well being, but the anticipated problem was not the problem of unemployment.