Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the Vietnam veterans, the people who live near the sprayed areas have begun to experience the ill-effects of the dioxin. Crop-dusters try to confine spraying to forested areas with sparse populations, but the herbicide wafts toward more populated areas. Studies conducted by the Forestry Service document the phenomenon of "spray drift": the herbicide spreads to outlying areas coating them in a fine mist of chemicals. The Service found that dioxin floats into streams, where it harms fish. The same study documented a loss of vegetation adversely affecting the fishfood supply...
What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...
Farmers around Circle were discouraged by that, and many of them plowed their wheat under rather than pay to have it harvested. This year there is a big U.S. crop, but also Government supports and the hope of a heavy overseas sale. The price is $3 a bushel, not enough to turn a farmer's thoughts to a new Mercedes, but enough to turn a slight profit...
...middle, once again, is Jimmy Carter, urging his Government to spread the gospel against cigarette smoking but at the same time telling the good folks who grow the leaf how nice it is that they have such a good crop. On the cigarette, for the moment, Carter stands for just about nothing...
...Jaws. Last year it was Star Wars, the most successful film of all time. This year it is Star Wars again. Sweeping into 1,700 theaters last month in the greatest rerun in history, it registered its biggest week ever, and is still outdrawing most of the current crop of new films. But some of those are also doing very well, including Grease, Heaven Can Wait, Jaws 2, Foul Play and Revenge of the Pink Panther. Hence Hollywood's ebullient summer...