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...contemporaries wonder where the collective anger that fed their faith in 1969 went. They think that the dream of '69 died with the action, and they miss the high feeling of Happening. One of their biggest depressants is a whole new crop of freshmen and sophomores who simply aren't having...
...winter. A particularly late frost in California this March. The worst flood in the Mississippi basin since 1937. Abroad, the worst drought in India in 20 years. A landscape of dehydrated livestock carcasses dotting the dry beds of rivers in Africa. An absence of monsoons that ruined the rice crop in Southeast Asia...
...Exchange information on agriculture, particularly Soviet crop estimates that will enable U.S. and other Western farmers to plant in advance to meet likely Soviet demands...
When the President pointed out one morning at the White House a 6-ft. 4-in., 250-lb. Iowa Congressman and said, "That's Bill Scherle, he's agriculture," Brezhnev leaped at Scherle, looking up a full head above himself. How are crop prospects? Brezhnev wanted to know. Yes, he remembered Roswell Garst, who lives in Scherle's district, the man who had brought hybrid seed corn to Russia. They were studying productivity of crops and cattle-building up, Brezhnev told Scherle. When he moved on, Brezhnev left no doubt that during summit No. 4-that would...
...ease the crisis, many Asians are looking to the U.S. 1973 crop-perhaps in vain. Spring flooding in the Mississippi Valley ravaged the rice fields. Planting was late, and yields may be low. The Nixon Administration has announced that exports of grains, including rice, may be curbed to keep domestic prices in line. If the U.S. will not export rice, Southeast Asians will have to look to their own resources, tighten their collective belts, and hope that better weather later this year will revive the "green revolution" that was to solve their chronic food shortage...