Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeed in this fast-changing, low-margin business, a fellow has to be nimble. Says Jack Neuman, 45, who raises corn, soybeans and hogs in Sangamon County, Ill.: "It used to be that if you had a child who wasn't too bright, you'd say, 'Son, you're going to be a farmer.' Nowadays, if that dumb kid comes along volunteering to farm...
...Carter Administration, which took office when farm prices were falling drastically, partially reversed the Butz policy. Besides urging farmers to participate in set-aside programs, it has, with considerable prodding from Congress, established target prices for wheat and corn that are above today's market quotes, even though these target prices by no means guarantee farmers a profit. Government outlays to support farm incomes have quadrupled in two years, to an estimated $7.9 billion in fiscal 1978. But the Administration has resisted pressure to set support prices still higher?even though Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland last winter had to climb...
...earlier, while the prices they paid for tools, fertilizer and consumer goods?including food?rose only 10%. Most crops have been bountiful enough this year to cause even retail food prices to level off after a frightening winter-spring rise. The Department of Agriculture predicts record 1978 crops of corn, soybeans, hay and fall potatoes. Corn is so abundant that Midwestern farmers are storing it on streets, playgrounds and tennis courts...
...SIXTIES, a man in Southern California was arrested for growing corn over seven feet high. Simultaneously, the Johnson administration examined the embarrassingly obsolete and arbitrary body of law known as the United States criminal code. Now 13 years old, the criminal code reform effort has produced not one new law. Which is probably a very good thing. The code reform rubric has covered three of the most repressive bills to have been considered by Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts...
...person than he does in photographs; the face is less mephistophelian and more delicate--gentle, almost vulnerable. "I don't have anything to say," he begins, "but I'll answer any questions." His voice is higher than one would expect, viscous and slighly drawly, the vocal equivalent of the corn syrup produced in his native Kansas. For over an hour Altman answers questions from the 30-odd reporters sitting in front of him. He responds patiently and candidly, even when faced with questions he's obviously answered a hundred times in a hundred interviews. Below, some of Altman's responses...