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Central Asia and Siberia, and was lucky enough to be able to proclaim a bumper wheat crop for 1956. In 1960 he succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been...
...this fall for corn, wheat and soybeans, harvesting more than 13 billion bu. of the three crops combined. They grew another 1.94 billion bu. of oats, barley and grain sorghum. But elevators, silos and bins are already swelling with a 4.39 billion-bu. carryover from last year's bumper crop. Although new storage facilities are being built at a record rate, they will not be enough to hold this year's harvest. Empty barges and railroad hoppers, airplane hangars, even high school football fields and city streets are being pressed into service as makeshift repositories. Says Agriculture Secretary...
...almost as if all the campaigning, speechmaking and handshaking had never occurred, and those thousands of cloying or clawing television commercials and bumper stickers had never appeared. After an estimated outlay of some $130 million by Republican and Democratic candidates, the lineup of the Senate had not changed a bit. The breakdown remained 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats. The G.O.P. had feared that it might lose the chamber it had seized in 1980, or at least see its margin over the Democrats narrowed. "Needless to say," said Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
Ballots list a bumper-sticker crop of 237 questions in 42 states...
...mechanisms of initiative and referendum, those venerable tools of direct democracy, in greater numbers or with wider impact. From cracking down on crime to denying electroshock therapy in Berkeley, Calif., there were 237 statewide ballot measures in 42 states and the District of Columbia. California fielded the most, a bumper-sticker crop...