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Lucas looks at 1962 with a critical eye. He attempts a serious examination of the era's inner dynamic. He is not always successful here, but after the corn of The Summer of '42, the effort is appreciated...
...example, in the past 15 years, increasingly potent seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, along with ever more advanced methods and machinery, have almost doubled the average corn yield to 92 bu. an acre. On some experimental farms, yields have already reached 300 bu. Soybean yields have risen by half a bushel an acre per year for the past ten years, to about 30 bu. The Government figures that by 1985, soybean production will increase by more than 30%, to 2 billion bu., and that estimate seems low. Agronomists contend that they could double the soybean crop in a few years...
...durable institutions. The audience for advanced art is, as Roy Lichtenstein once wryly observed, about as big as the audience for advanced chemistry. Wyeth's audience, however, runs into the millions. His infrequent exhibitions -the most recent of which is a retrospective organized by Art Historian Wanda M. Corn at the De Young Museum in San Francisco-jam the galleries with visitors; in the U.S. only Picasso can pull more crowds than Wyeth. The price of a Wyeth watercolor begins at about $20,000, and his minutely detailed tempera paintings, of which he manages to finish about...
...understand about an individual with his tremendous sexual drive," P.J. Piscitelli, DeSalvo's lawyer, explained. The reminiscences were due to be published early next year - several publishers were bidding for them - when the Supreme Court ruled on pornography. Now, says Piscitelli, "we are injecting a lot of corn in place of some of the porn. The book started out 80% sex, 20% less titillating. They want us to reverse the proportion." For Europe, the earlier weightings may prevail...
...rebuild them. The scarcities are also having a snowballing effect; a shortage in one commodity aggravates shortages in others. Example: a shift in the ocean currents off Peru has almost wiped out the catch of anchovies, a major source of animal feed. As a consequence, demand for soybeans and corn to be fed to cattle and hogs has speeded up sharply, worsening shortages of those foods, and also of meat...