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They are like a scattered army-you can't shoot them all." So said Farmer Ivan Josserand of Stanton County in western Kansas last week, as he fought a losing battle against swarms of grasshoppers chewing up his alfalfa and corn fields. In Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County Agent Monte Hendricks counted up to 50 hoppers per sq. yd., five times the number usually considered to be disastrous. Said he: "On the fringes of some bean fields there is nothing left but stubs...
Carter's threat to veto any bill that lowers the capital gains rate is widely thought to be a bluff, but if positions continue to harden, he may make good on his threat. That could be calamitous. Congress almost certainly will pass some sort of cut in capital gains, but vetoing the entire bill just for this would hurt the economy. On Jan. 1, taxpayers face some $6.6 billion in additional Social Security levies and the expiration of about $11.5 billion in temporary income tax cuts enacted during the Ford Administration. Unless the resulting tax increases are offset...
...America Inc. About $100 million was invested in high-technology companies, with dreary results; none came up with anything promising. When in 1974-75 reports came out that Gulf had made huge illegal payments to U.S. and foreign politicians, Dorsey was forced to resign, and McAfee, a big, bluff, humorous technician, was brought in from the company's Canadian subsidiary...
...distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them to sit there neutrally." He succeeds. The class bubbles on about a Flannery O'Connor story, oblivious to a bright spring morning outside and even to the end-of-class buzzer. "I don't sandbag or bluff them," says Wise. "I try to challenge them...
...bluff, square-jawed Kattel had been something of a symbol of Atlanta's expansive spirit. A youthful president of the city's Chamber of Commerce, he was hand-picked to head C & S five years ago, when he was only 35, by Mills B. Lane...