Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred Kleiboeker's corn-and-soybean farm, 6½ miles northwest of Centralia, looks much like the rest of the crop land in Illinois' flat, picture-book farm belt. But it is now acreage with a difference. Last week, after analysis of the 1960 census results, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges announced that a point on Kleiboeker's farm has become the population center* of the'U.S.-defined by Hodges as the spot at which the nation's 179 million people can convene with the minimum travel mileage...
...Corn in Percival. The major work picked up impetus after World War II, as the Corps of Engineers divided their labors among several control systems. Dams, reservoirs, floodgates, riprap and levees were built to control the flow rate. Reforestation and soil-conservation practices decreased flood runoff. By enlarging and lining channels, removing snags and other obstructions, and by straightening bends, the engineers reduced flow resistance. Combined with local expenditures, these federal programs will eventually provide for 87 million acre-feet of flood-control storage in 219 reservoirs in the U.S., more than 9,000 miles of levees and floodwalls...
From the 11 students in the original group two sections--five who believed in psychokinesis and five who did not--were formed, with the 11th member serving as impartial gardener. Each person prayed or thought over an individual tray of corn seeds for 1b minutes a day, three times a week for two weeks...
What could be more rote drill than Skinner's "one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately 'reinforcing' each correct response with a grain of corn." What could be more inflexible than this or the sample of a programed high school physics lesson as shown...
Five years ago, the Andean highlands of southern Peru were hit by disastrous drought. The 1,000,000 Indian peasants, who chronically suffer from malnutrition, faced outright famine. From Point Four headquarters in Washington went orders that sent 100,000 tons of surplus corn, wheat, barley and dried milk on its way to Peru. The tragic story of just how little of the food found its way into the stomachs of starving Peruvians emerged last week, thanks to a congressional committee in Washington and a hard-digging U.S. newspaperman in Lima...