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Grateful farmers, who had been in revolt against the Republicans a year earlier because of a sag in commodity prices, voted overwhelmingly for Nixon. But the victory was scarcely celebrated before prices took off. It was not all Nixon's doing. A corn blight had reduced the supply of feed for livestock. By coincidence, the complex cycles for raising cattle and hogs also reached their low points simultaneously. At this rather inopportune time, the U.S. economy started booming, and demand for meat picked up. On top of that, a bad crop in the Soviet Union caused Moscow to turn...
...name of the new speculation game is soybeans. More precisely, it is soybean futures. One representative contract shot up from $3.20 per bushel last summer to a record $7 early in March and closed last week at $6.18. That outstripped even the performance of feed corn, lumber studs, and other commodities-including metals-that have also been putting on a pyrotechnic show. The fireworks have tempted investors, who not long ago considered soybeans to be little more than a health food...
...strengths of the book are clear. Kramer takes off on small incidents or seemingly narrow subjects, like the farming of different kinds of corn or the ecological dangers of weekend snowmobiling. By describing rather than preaching, he conveys a broad sense of people's lives and of political problems. He writes with a great deal of feeling, often nicely understated. He describes city slickers moving in to make a quick buck or to enjoy the country on weekends at the farmers' expense, and the giant farm supply corporations which generally make farmers' lives miserable. But he doesn't bludgeon...
...MAKES hasty pudding anymore. We can thank the boys over at 12 Holyoke St. for that, if nothing else. A vile combination of corn meal, Lutmeg, giner, eggs, water, milk, molasses and butter, the stuff used to be whipped up in the late 1700s by Harvard undergraduates to supplement the rather gross fare of the pre-Central Kitchen era. In those days, the story goes, you might catch a glimpse some night of students bearing a steaming kettle of this poison on a pole to wherever the Hasty Pudding Club was assembled for the evening. Everybody would then fill themselves...
...which somehow holds a whole country. They say that there is a place in Missouri somewhere, where you can stand looking west and know that there is nothing but solid unbroken wheat for a thousand miles. These fields are sparsely but evenly inhabited, just as they are among the corn to the north. Richard Nixon was one of the first to point out something special about the people here--that they are silent. Other things are strange and haunting in a land like this: all is not good clean work and healthy abundance in the Sacred Middle, and artists...