Word: corne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today Michigan's proud boast is that it can make anything. It manufactures more cars, corn flakes and chloromycetin than any other state, commonwealth or country. Dynamic Detroit may have less charm than any other great U.S. city-but it has more factories. It is the symbol to the world of U.S. industrial genius...
...MacDonald had a farm, 175 acres or so, where he and his two sons raised corn and hogs. His income had plummeted during the Eisenhower administration and he was anxious to examine the initial statements of the Nixon and Kennedy farm policies. Then, instead of voting on election night, he walked down to the Grange Hall to mope quietly with the rest of his friends...
Since the present farm program must cater to international politics, as well as to corn farmers in Kansas and apple growers in upstate New York, it has failed to cater to anyone. Hence, the difference in candidates will mean almost nothing to the farmers when they pull the levers on Nov. 8. It seems almost inevitable that most of their sons will be city dwellers...
...turned out to-hear him speak that morning; at Lincoln's Cornhusker Hotel there were just 25 listeners. The state organization was badly fragmented and outclassed by the well-organized Republicans, and the voters were more concerned with world crises and religion than with the price of corn. "We're behind in Nebraska," Bobby mused, "but we're behind in Illinois too. We have to have Illinois, but we don't have to have Nebraska. We should spend our time and money in Illinois...
...himself looked suntanned and genial, and showed his extreme polish in impromptu speeches at the airport and en route to the Statler. His addresses to the local dinner and to the nation over closed-circuit TV were hard-hitting and effective; he seems to have refined most of the corn out of his talks, at least in Boston. In general, the impression was strong that the Republicans are not dead in Massachusetts...