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...price supports for corn from $1.75 per bu. to $2, and the target price of wheat from $2.47 to $3. Both programs distribute money to farmers when prices fall below certain levels. In November $1 billion in Government checks will begin going out to wheat growers for their summer crop. When that happens, Bergland believes, the farm heat may simmer down...
...thesis should be a learning expeience," says Irene Rosenberg '78, who is studying the structure of DNA taken from corn chloroplast into E. coli bacteria. She hopes to learn about lab techniques, and in the process, contribute information that may someday lead to benefits such as higher crop yields. "My project isn't earth-shattering, it's not cornshattering, either," she says, "but it will provide some information...
...before the well runs dry. Seeing an insolent knight in armor whacked down to a limbless torso may amuse the warped souls among us, but this sweeping satire of the Middle Ages soon exhausts the range of laughable subjects that kicked around in King Arthur's day. Scenes occasionally crop up that deserve a hearty guffaw; too bad they are so few and far between...
...becoming increasingly clear that Vietnam has not been able to reestablish its agricultural production as rapidly as it had hoped to, and that the Vietnamese will experience serious famine this year. Current reports indicate the rice crop will be two million tons smaller than last year's, or 20 per cent short of the normal Vietnamese harvest. It is therefore even more important than ever that the United States government begin at the earliest possible date to pay reparations to the country it spent nearly 20 years destroying, and immediately authorize funds and send foodstuffs to avert the impending famine...
...although the team has only one returning senior this year, a promising crop of freshmen and seven other returning members, plus newly built courts across the Charles at Soldiers Field, are enough to bring Captain Katie Ditzler to say, "I'm sure we can do ten times better" this year...