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...Federal Farm Bureau, the largest private farm organization, would augment the government's proposals with relief from federal regulation and more liberalized credit. Neither the Agriculture Department's nor the Bureau's suggestions would solve the farmers' problem, though. The farmers don't want to see parity evolve on its own. The evolution would be too time-consuming, and would not necessarily succeed. Instead, they want parity immediately--and they plan...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: In Search of Prosperity--and Parity | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...that produced the first human must have occurred longer ago than 3.5 million years?the age of the oldest known Homo fossils, which were found in 1975 by Mary Leakey. Again, the rigorous demands of savanna living may have been responsible for the branching out. Australopithecus africanus, straining to augment its food supply in the flat grasslands, began to eat meat?probably obtaining it not by hunting, but by scavenging the kills left behind by large predators. Australopithecus robustus, on the other hand, continued to subsist largely on seeds and nuts. Both eventually died out, unable to compete successfully with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...university faces a number of financial difficulties," Flink said. Yale's provost office will release a comprehensive budget review later this month to augment the reasons for the hiring freeze...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Yale Board of Trustees Freezes Faculty Hiring | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...especially, he was much too adventurous with the sacred scores to please his colleagues. He was never afraid to experiment with sound, and was one of the rare few performers who would do so in a concert hall. On one occasion, he added electronic devices to the orchestra, to augment the double basses in a composition that he thought needed an extra heavy bass. Experiments in the association of color and sound that were done early in the century caught Stokowski's fascination. He once used a color machine during a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, to heighten...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: The Baton Also Rises | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

...find themselves accused of going soft, of frivolously aping the Pollyanna fadeouts of popular schlock. To counter such charges, Fowles fills Daniel Martin with plenty of reasons for contemporary despair: war, poverty, tyrannies of the body and mind, mankind's apparent inability to do anything about problems except augment them. His hero tries "to discover what had gone wrong, not only with Daniel Martin, but his generation, age, century; the unique selfishness of it, the futility, the ubiquitous addiction to wrong ends...not only a trip to nowhere, but an exorbitant fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Toughest Question | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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