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...driving back to the Hill with G.O.P. Chairman George Bush, he felt better. So did Congressman Les Arends, who reported on the problems of farmers from his Illinois district. Texan John Tower thumped for the need to increase beef production. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton told the story of how a farmer drove 100 miles to talk to him because he thought Cotton was close to Nixon and could deliver the message. Well, now he could. We once paid farmers to kill animals, the fellow told Cotton. That was wrong. Why don't we turn it around...
...public he turns aside questions about it by recalling the day during his freshman year in the Senate when New Hampshire's crusty Norris Cotton asked: "Can you smell the sweet smell of white marble?" No, said Baker, chuckling at the quaint image. Replied Cotton: "When you're here long enough, you will and you'll like it. From that moment on, you won't be worth a damn...
...healing process. Then through the perforation, he blows antibiotic powders into the ear canal behind the eardrum to prevent infection. Finally, he presses a thin antiseptic-soaked gauze patch against the eardrum and sends the patient home with instructions to put antiseptic drops into his ear twice daily. The cotton patch, which is replaced at two-week intervals, prevents the formation of a scab over the hole in the membrane, but allows new tissue to grow. Of the 1,408 patients Derlacki has treated by this procedure over a 26-year period, 1,106 healed without complications, most...
...weather caught the U.S. squarely in the middle. By May, 12.6 million acres in seven Midwestern and Southern states were inundated; 4,000,000 acres are still flooded. Some planned cotton crops were never planted. Anticipated corn yields in Illinois are down 10% from last year, and winter-wheat losses are high. Total flood damage is estimated at $409 million...
...sure, some of the causes of inflation seem almost beyond government control. European refiners have had to swallow a 17% rise in the cost of Mid dle Eastern and North African oil in the past six months, and some textile mills are paying 40% to 50% more for cotton and wool, partly because purchases by the all-consuming Japanese have shrunk supply. The most volatile commodity of all is the $80 billion in Eurodollars, spilled out of the U.S. by past excessive American spending, that ricochets from country to country, feed ing inflation by swelling the available money supply...