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...gone to pot-and neighboring Iowa has even more of it, thanks to heavier rainfall. The marijuana that grows in Nebraska, mostly along roadsides, creeks, hedgerows and railroad tracks, is virtually worthless as a narcotic. "Smoking it would be about like smoking corn silk," said Lancaster County Extension Agent Emery Nelson...
Zieff has also composed some striking magazine ads: the chubby kid eating Kellogg's Corn Flakes on the back steps, the tattooed cowpoke smoking Marlboro cigarettes, the Indian munching Levy's Rye Bread ("You don't have to be Jewish . . ."). Now that he is the top director in TV commercials and earns about $300,000 a year, he is in the fortunate position of being able to turn down six job offers for every one he accepts. He deals only with those few agencies-Wells Rich Greene, Doyle Dane Bernbach and Carl Ally-that will allow...
...England version of corn bread, jonny is derived from journey, not John. The recipe: "The corn must be ground by finegrained stones, which would make 'flat' meal instead of 'round.' The meal should be made into dough and spread on the middle board of a red oak barrelhead [and then baked]. Only walnut coals were worthy, and the crust as it browned should be basted with cream...
...Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy of political novels that attacked widespread "Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing-if sometimes too polemically -on the growth and power of the United...
...would still recognize about the industry, indeed, are its size and its troubles. Cattle roam no less than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least eleven states; they are worth more annually than wheat, corn and cotton combined. But even with the average U.S. consumer eating a record 105.5 Ibs. of beef products a year, livestock prices have remained nearly constant for 15 years, while costs have risen 73%. "The cattle business is caught in a cost-price squeeze," says American National Cattlemen...