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...other subjects in the same way that pigeons learn Ping Pong. Accordingly, machines now in use in scores of cities across the country present pupils with a succession of easy learning steps. At each one, a correct answer to a question brings instant reinforcement, not with the grain of corn that rewarded the pigeon, but with a printed statement?supposedly just as satisfying?that the answer is right...
...Pageant. Criticized as lily-white by civil rights groups, demonstrated against by Women's Lib, condescended to by intellectuals and the New York Times (which has been known to spare two paragraphs deep inside to report the winner), Miss America annually blooms like a crop of late summer corn. The second Saturday night in September always finds more than 60 million televiewers tuning in as, live from Atlantic City, Bert Parks opens the last envelope, milks the last drop of suspense, announces the winner and launches the pageant's theme song: There...
...interaction of the land, air and sea environments that make up the North American ecosystem. Coastal areas, for example, provide the habitat and food for thousands of species, many of which find their way to the dinner table. "An acre of marshland produces more protein than an acre of corn," says Edward Daly, chief of the wetlands division of the Connecticut department of agriculture and natural resources. "And," he adds, "it acts as a sponge. In rough weather, high water, a hurricane, the wetland reduces flood damage...
...Thanks to alert leadership in a growing number of states, during the past five years fully one-third of the nation's 4,000,000 4-H members have been signed up in cities; another third now live in "nonfarm" suburban areas. Youngsters producing blue ribbon bread and corn still exist, but their numbers are declining. "We used to put more emphasis on the chicken than on the child," says Indiana State Leader Edward L. Frickey. "Now we put the blue ribbon...
...year's Indiana State Fair has not provided space for several displays produced by the new urban projects. Although the fair managers plead that the programs are still too insignificant to be represented, to State Leader Frickey the omission is symptomatic. "They'll have an exhibit on corn blight, and that's fine," he says. "But the time is coming when they're going to have to recognize that we also have a people-blight problem." Some already do. When an Indianapolis club went on a traditional 4-H visit to members' houses...