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...grain eliminated by the U.S. So far, Canada and Australia have given "pretty firm" commitments to go along with the embargo, while Argentina is a question mark. Even if these nations do cooperate, the Soviets may still find other ways to get their grain. Says Verel Bailey, an Iowa corn grower: "The Russians are very effective in manipulating international pipeline supplies. It would not surprise me if a lot of grain starts heading for Polish ports and never arrives there but goes to a 'destination unknown,' namely the Soviet Union...
Even if the embargo were to prove largely successful, it is unlikely that anybody in the U.S.S.R. would go hungry. The bulk of the grain from the U.S. is corn, which is fed to livestock. The Kremlin has been striving to build up its herds after a distress slaughter prompted by bad harvests in the mid-1970s. At the moment, Soviet ports and storage areas are crammed with grain, so any embargo would not be felt for a few months. When the grain runs out, the herds would again be slaughtered to feed people. Toward...
People were asked to donate money in multiples of $2.20, the approximate price of a bushel of corn, but no one worried much about making the math come out even. Some farmers took their corn to grain elevators and asked the operators to forward the cash to Iowa Shares. One woman and her husband sent in $80 and her engagement ring. Iowa Shares kept the money but sent back the ring. In Dubuque, high schools sponsored a dance. Eric Sharp, 9, gave the $50 that his parents were going to spend for his Christmas presents...
...clear, cold day in January, and the early morning light glows on the hills and mountains. Beautiful, but there is a wrongness to the look and feel of things. There is too much brown in the landscape, too much detail. Snow brings blues and purples, edits out corn stubble and fallen leaves, turns a landscape into a line drawing. Its severity is what this fine January light should be explicating...
...murderousness and mediocrity, the decade recorded numerous accomplishments although, typically, a lot of them went unnoticed in the undiscriminating cultural uproar. U.S. scientists enlarged the boundaries of knowledge in nuclear physics, biophysics, particle physics, biochemistry and electrooptics, among other fields. American plant biologists continued to develop the hybrid corn that remains one of this century's most important contributions to agriculture. Although the moon program was dismantled during the '70s, the two Vikings and two Voyagers probed Mars and Jupiter; now the Voyagers are proceeding to Saturn and then to even remoter reaches...