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With its "Cal Aggie spirit"-corn-fed coeds, boys in cowboy boots, and an honored honor system-rural Davis seems almost anachronistic in the age of urban universities. That is precisely its pitch. "Our isolation is important," says genial Chancellor Emil Mrak, 62, a noted food technologist who used to teach at Berkeley. To justify his $10 million-a-year building program, Mrak has only to point at California's jammed cities and freeways. Davis appeals as an oasis-part farm, part suburbia-where everyone still knows everyone else. Cars are disdained in favor of bicycles...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK smiles through the tears in this musical adaptation of one of 19th century Dramatist Dion Boucicault's marshmelodramas about a mortgage-foreclosing cad of a banker. In a properly silly mood, a playgoer can bear with the ancient corn and relish the singing and miming of a stylishly spoofy cast...
...feed grain dealers and elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...products that the company whips up yearly on its research budget of $3,500,000. Only six or eight of a year's budget of products ever get to the shelves. Currently Nabisco is test-marketing "Team Flakes," a four-grain cereal of wheat, rice, oats and corn...
Fortunately, Pitts is an expert on bootstrap operations. His penniless father, a Georgia tenant farmer, raised eight children on peas and corn bread and dreamed of educating all of them. Pitts arrived at Negro Paine College in 1934 with $13 in his pocket, worked his way washing dishes. After two years he went blind. At length he recovered sight in one eye and quit college to "keep school" in Milan, Ga., for $47.50 a month. He saved money, but his father borrowed it-$50 here, $100 there. One day, urging him to finish college, his father produced all the "borrowed...