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...honor in science was typical of the intensely private, no-nonsense researcher. Genetics is a science founded by a monk-19th century Augustinian Gregor Mendel-and McClintock is in every sense his disciple. For half a century she has labored in almost monastic solitude over her patch of Indian corn, or maize, much as Mendel did in his famous pea patch. In an era when most scientific work is done by large research teams, McClintock did not even have a laboratory assistant. ("Excuse me for being hoarse," she once told a scientist who stopped...
Thanks to a drought-induced shortage of corn and grain, some of America's pigs and cows have had their diets "upgraded"-changed, anyway...
John R. Funk, a retired seed-corn executive and president of the George Ade Memorial Association, comes on the line with directions to the old Ade estate as if it blocks out more Indiana sky than a grain elevator. "Two miles east of Brook, on Indiana 16," he says, neglecting to say there is no interstate exit for Brook, nor for Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study...
...though, could begin coming from food prices. The worst drought since the 1930s has devastated many crops, while at the same time the Government's Payment-in-Kind program has encouraged farmers to leave some fields idle. The Agriculture Department said last week that this year's corn crop would be 48% smaller than last year's. The price of corn has already gone up about 60% since January, a surge that will eventually boost the cost of meat from corn-fed livestock. Schultze said that food prices would rise more than 5% next year, adding...
Soviet attempts to woo the international peace movement clearly have been set back?and the antinuclear movement might be damaged by a wave of you-can't-trust-the-Soviets feeling. David Corn, a leader of U.S. antinuclear activists, writing an open letter to Andropov in the New York Times, asserted, "Your edge in the propaganda war of peace was shot down when the Korean jetliner fell from the sky ... A new 'get tough' attitude in the West will hinder our efforts . . . You now have to decide if the Soviet Union really gives a whit about peace...