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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent her 20th birthday on the train -were shot when they stood up. But so effective were the terrifying roars of the jetcraft that the great majority of the prisoners instinctively dove for the ground. Summed up Air Force Major W.A. Blaauw: "It was a nice operation. You must count on some casualties in operations like this, but they were kept very low, and it was a great success...
Seattle Slew thus entered a small enclosure of racing royalty that includes Gallant Fox, War Admiral, Count Fleet, Citation, Secretariat. And with a particular distinction: alone among the Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew has a perfect record. The Belmont Stakes was his ninth trip to the starting gate and his ninth run to the wire as a winner. In the week before the Belmont, there was little doubt among backstretchers that Seattle Slew would complete his sweep. Secretariat Owner Penny Tweedy Ringquist, whose Spirit Level took his shot at Slew and lost, said: "Seattle Slew is head and shoulders above...
...passed by Congress last February helped too. It enabled gas-consuming states to buy-at high unregulated prices-supplies that had been held in such producing states as Texas and Louisiana. Supplies in storage have now been rebuilt to the point that factories burning natural gas can count on getting enough to keep them running through the summer and fall. Since supplies are being replenished faster than they are being used, reports the American Gas Association, by fall "we'll be in our traditional start-of-winter posture: full storage." Meaning: homeowners and most factory managers can forget about...
Other dire fears of last winter have also disappeared. A shortage of fertilizer had seemed likely because large quantities of natural gas are needed to make it, and a Government survey found manufacturers' inventories to be low. But the survey did not count the inventories of wholesalers and retailers, who had built record stocks. Farmers this year have enough fertilizer to enable them to produce huge crops (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...third bin-busting wheat crop in a row. Huge plantings of soybeans, corn and other grains are completed and, weather permitting, prospects for bumper yields of these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere between 4% and 6%, v. painful leaps of 14.5% in 1973 and again...