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...further by Thanksgiving. Many ranchers who rushed their cattle to feed lots prematurely because of high prices and a drought that dried up grazing land are now rebuilding their herds. Such expansion initially reduces cattle supplies and drives up prices because heifers, which make up half of the calf crop, are held back for breeding purposes...
...success, Turkey, may turn out to be discouragingly hollow. In return for $35 million in various subsidies, Turkey agreed to curb the cultivation of opium after the 1972 crop was harvested. The Administration felt that it had achieved a "breakthrough" because the 80 tons of illicit opium produced by Turkish farmers last year produced 80% of the heroin entering the U.S. market. But now there are worries that the curb may be ineffective, in view of the large supplies of opium that canny Turkish smugglers are rumored to have begun to stockpile long...
...almost 20% as thrill seekers, and 9% for tendencies toward brutality. Virtually all these men had already gone through written and oral tests and supposedly thorough background checks before they got to G.P.C., and were about to be hired. Says Strand sardonically: "We get only the cream of the crop"-and two-thirds of it is sour...
Throughout the northeastern U.S., June's heavy rains greened the countryside in splendid style, creating luscious lawns, luxuriant sprays of roses -and a mosquito crop that is big, noisy and vicious enough to turn the average picnic into a Schuhplattler exhibition. Says Dr. Thomas Bast, associate medical entomologist of the New York state health department: "This year's overall count is at least 200% higher than any other over the past six years. Some traps that usually catch about 25 mosquitoes a night now catch anywhere from...
...survived this bloody sea? I step across this stubbled field And look around at the crop Which murder butchered horribly. My friends lie all around me, My brothers are no longer here ... You, who prepared so much death, Have you no death...