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...decades ahead, this area and its people -with its rich crops of wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization's most valuable resource, more valuable even than oil and forests and minerals In Earl Butz's little study, which has a horse collar, a buffalo skull and other rustic memorabilia on the wall, the Secretary can almost smell the rising power of food in economics, politics and the pursuit of peace. In those 16 Central States with 1,198,848 sq. mi., 223,260,000 acres are in crops worth $54 billion a year, almost twice...
...should have pictured the Buffalo Bills' offensive line. The Electric Company turned loose the Juice and the front four became the Steel Sieve...
...acres of land very much as his ancient Egyptian ancestors did. He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity. He gets water up to the level of the field by the ages-old device of blindfolding his gamoosa (water buffalo) and driving the animal around in a circle to turn a water wheel. At night, Hammouda's buffalo and chickens sleep in the house with his wife and five children...
...National Hockey League action last night, the Bruins squeaked by the Washington Capitals 3-2 to move into a tie for first place with the Buffalo Sabres. Dave Reece, who had not played in the last 17 games, started in goal for the Bruins...
Another disenchanted FBI informer, Mary Jo Cook, told how she had infiltrated the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War in Buffalo in 1973. Paid some $5,000 for her work, she mainly befriended the veterans and kept the FBI posted on their antiwar activities. Though she found the spying "more exciting than working as a teller in a bank," she soured on it when she discovered that the veterans were sincere in their opposition to the war, not under any foreign-propaganda influence and not bent on violence...