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...they don't even care if Jimmy Crack Corn...
...shameless politicking over the bills did nothing to reduce many farmers' sense of alienation from Washington. Currently, the Midwest is trying to cope with problems created by the most bountiful harvest ever: 8 billion bu. of corn and 2.8 billion bu. of wheat. The resulting fall in prices has been compounded by rising costs, high interest rates and stagnant consumer demand. But many farm leaders now argue that subsidizing overproduction will not solve their problems. Says Iowa Agriculture Secretary Robert Lounsberry: "The election produced a mandate for the marketplace to set the price, but now a lot of people...
...achieve fitness been more evident than in the nation's supermarket basket and at the dinner table. Presbyterian Minister Sylvester Graham started the bulk wagon rolling in the 19th century with his famous cracker. Later Post and Kellogg began cleaning digestive systems with flakes of bran and corn in their Battlecreek, Mich., sanatoriums. With cheerful innocence, Americans have periodically embarked on reordering themselves, as well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable American optimism. "Here's for the plain...
...Black, 24. And eventually Bobby and Emily began to agree with each other. Last week the couple announced that they would be wed on March 6. Young Bobby is the son of Ethel and the late Robert Kennedy, and the nephew of President John Kennedy. Emily is the blossomy, corn-fed daughter of a Bloomington, Ind., lumberman. Said Bobby: "My father won Indiana in 1968, and her mother is a Democrat who voted for him. I checked that fact out before I popped the question...
...write their own ticket." In California venture capitalists have provided "seed" money for Calgene in Davis and Phytogene in Pasadena. In St. Louis Monsanto has just added a gleaming molecular biology center to its agricultural research facilities. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the nation's top breeder of seed corn, has broken ground for its own high-tech molecular biology lab in Des Moines...