Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better world, Michael Mullen would have perhaps had the chance to become friends with his Vietnamese counterparts. The Vietnamese may well have understood the attachment of Iowans to the land and the rhythm of the seasons. Corn farmers and rice farmers might not have had much in common. But, then again, they might have...
From the air over Illinois one can see the giant cultivators, drawn behind tractors, gently stirring the earth between the rows of new corn. It is a consuming drama between a farmer and his land. Building more than 50,000 cars and trucks a day, as auto workers did last week, is a noisy creation that tends to squeeze out idle thoughts of the political campaign. And with wages at $6.57 an hour, the workers are enticed into weekend recreation rather than Jerry Ford rallies. Last week the National Park Service estimated that there were 9 million campers and sightseers...
...Brigham Young University, biologists are attempting to "infect" other species of plants with rhizobia. Scientists in England have isolated the segment of the rhizobial DNA that controls the nitrogen-fixing capability. Now they and other scientists are trying to incorporate this gene into the genetic material of plants like corn. These and other efforts to give grain plants the capability of nitrogen fixation could, if successful, increase the yield of plants and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. Nitrogen fertilizers require large quantities of natural gas and petroleum to produce...
GENETIC MANIPULATION. Botanists have succeeded in mixing plant genes to create some remarkable hybrids, such as the winter wheat and high-yield corns that have helped make the U.S. plains a global granary. Other hybrids are also helping to fight famine around the world. Pearl millet, introduced in 1965, is currently being grown on some 45 million acres in India, Pakistan and Africa; it accounts for 20% of the food increase attributed to the so-called "Green Revolution" in agriculture. Scientists are also seeking, through cell manipulation, to improve the characteristics of plants. Biologists at the USDA laboratory at Beltsville...
...good news is that the happy-talk news fad is waning; many stations are cutting back on their corn. "It's only a style, and styles go out of style," says Sam Zelman, whose ABC station in Washington has recently hired a respected ' network reporter, David Schoumacher, as anchor man. But the bad news is that some stations have replaced happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster...