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...grains is increasing faster than farmers can harvest their fields. In July the U.S. made a billion-dollar deal to supply Russia with wheat and other crops. Then China bought wheat from the U.S.; now India needs wheat to avert a potential famine. The U.S. Department of Agriculture anticipated bumper crops this year-but then the rains came. Since September, the beginning of the Midwest's harvest season, unprecedentedly heavy rains and freezing temperatures have repeatedly mired farmers' machinery in axle-deep mud. "Parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio look like lakes," moans Owen Nichols, chairman...
...only hope that those of us who know right from wrong will continue to year our McGovern buttons and display our bumper stickers symbolizing those ideals for which McGovern stands." Joel Alpert
...anti-Marketeers were described as a group of diverse elements, upset farmers and selfish fishermen "supported by a diffuse alliance of Maoist youth, Lutheran fundamentalists, mildly leftist university professors," etc. This bunch was reported to "smash windows" and "rip radio aerials from cars bearing 'Yes to EEC' bumper stickers." The only argument this bunch was credited with was that "EEC membership would allow 'dirty Italians' to steal Norwegian jobs and 'rich Germans' to grab Norwegian land...
...that caused a middle-class homeowner in Burbank, a jar of olives in hand for his martini, not to close the door in the face of the earnest, shaggy McGovern canvassers but to wish them well. In Chicago's 47th ward, a housewife accepted a bumper sticker from a McGovernite. "I'm only a step ahead of poverty," she said. "The middle class gets nothing. You can tell McGovern that. But thanks for the bumper sticker. As soon...
...bracelets are distributed by VIVA (Voices in Vital America), a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles. Working out of six regional offices, a staff of 60 full-time employees handles the bands as well as bundles of other materials sent out free: buttons, brochures, matchbooks, bumper stickers ("P.O.W.s Never Have a Nice Day"). Of the $3.5 million VIVA has received, it has plowed back all but $35,000 into more materials...