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...only vocal proponent of the project in the family, Calvin W. Stillman '39, wrote in a 1966 Black Rock Forest Report that he felt "the plant as planned constitutes no significant blight upon the natural beauty of Storm King and the Hudson River shorelines," and saw no reason why it should not be built...
...this year's crops, especially corn, will be large enough to pull down food prices only if farmers enjoy ideal rain and sunshine, no sudden frosts, an ample supply of fuel and fertilizer and an absence of blight. Such an unbroken string of happy circumstances is as rare in agriculture as eight passes in a row are at the crap table...
Grateful farmers, who had been in revolt against the Republicans a year earlier because of a sag in commodity prices, voted overwhelmingly for Nixon. But the victory was scarcely celebrated before prices took off. It was not all Nixon's doing. A corn blight had reduced the supply of feed for livestock. By coincidence, the complex cycles for raising cattle and hogs also reached their low points simultaneously. At this rather inopportune time, the U.S. economy started booming, and demand for meat picked up. On top of that, a bad crop in the Soviet Union caused Moscow to turn...
...people of Sandwich were fear ful that real estate developers might have plowed under the old patch and constructed more of the motels and quick-food outlets that already blight much of Cape Cod. Farmer Brown's son would have approved. When his father grew doubtful about preserving the patch, the boy would remind him: "It is the safest place anywhere for some of our most useful friends in fur and feathers. You know...
Whether deserved or not, the indifference of the majority towards new works remains to blight the creative efforts of today's composers. Their works often become all the more mannered, even more unapproachable to the layman. Yet it is possible to accomodate the listeners and not sacrifice the newer sounds available in composition. Martino's Seven Pious Pieces, last Sunday morning's anthem at Memorial Church, exhibited a graceful modernity in contrast to the often-raucous exercises choirs deliver in contemporary pieces...