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...shattering roar; for a moment, some thought that there had been a nuclear explosion at the famed Argonne National Laboratory near by. But the noise was the death of Flight 529, as it crunched into the earth and skidded in flame for half a mile across a field of corn and soybeans. There was no time to escape; the crew of five and all 73 passengers were burned to death, in the most costly single-plane disaster of U.S. commercial aviation history...
...pack of 12-oz. bottles or cans), Red Letter contains fewer than 100 calories per 12 oz. (v. 150-170 in other beers). The reduction in calories results not so much from a slight drop in alcohol content, say the makers, as from the removal of rice and corn "adjuncts" and a new malt recipe. Calorie counters will welcome it, but many beer drinkers with a taste for body and flavor may skip dessert instead. CJ Automatic cow-washing machine that scrubs, rinses and massages a dairy cow in 4^ sec. Called "Cowash," the bovine bathhouse ($3,500 installed) promises...
Seldom had Belgrade seen more bustle and toil. Wrecking crews felled whole rows of shabby old tenements as if scything corn. Gangs labored round the clock to transform gaping foundations into spruce little parks. Everywhere, the police rounded up known drunks, idlers and beggars and sent them off to the countryside for the duration of the Conference of Unaligned Nations...
...Fiercest Heart (20th Century-Fox) was evidently made in the hope that the common Hollywood oat, transplanted to a South African setting, would produce a fine cash crop, especially if mixed with plenty of corn. But the crop is a washout...
...Passed in the House and Senate and sent to the President a compromise farm bill providing a mandatory 10% cut in wheat acreage and continuing for another year the present voluntary corn and grain reduction programs. Although the President had little choice but to sign the bill, it was a far cry from the program recommended by his Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Among the Freeman proposals turned down by the Congress: a scheme for setting up farmer-Government committees to set subsidy levels for each commodity...