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...There are strong indications that you're in trouble in your upcoming bid for re-election. Does this have anything to do with your failure to carry South Dakota...
...hard in serving the state and tried to give my close attention to my own constituents. And tried to rebuild any damage that was done by the concentration on the presidential campaign for the last couple of years. And I think we're in reasonably good shape in South Dakota...
Future Bounty. Other farmers are obsessed with the thought voiced by North Dakota Farmer Bob Weed: "It's gotta be temporary. It's just too good to last." Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz explains: "Farmers remember 1967, when we were talking about the need to feed the world. We drew all the stops on the farm and asked for full production. That was just before the 'green revolution' took hold in India and Pakistan and demand in the U.S. slowed down." The miscalculation created enormous surpluses-and low prices for farmers. But, Butz claims, "the situation...
...transit systems. California's legislature voted to restore the death penalty for eleven specific categories of offenses, ranging from killing a policeman to causing a fatality by willfully wrecking a train; the state thus hoped to meet the Supreme Court's objections to indiscriminate capital punishment. South Dakota and Missouri debated ways to make their state governments more efficient. Portland, Ore., talked of saving electricity by eliminating high school football games on Friday nights. Nude bathers in San Diego opposed city fathers' plans to turn a stretch of secluded beach into a public park. Bakersfield, Calif., worried...
Almost everywhere farmers reveled in the record high prices for their harvests. In Ramsey County in the heart of North Dakota's wheat country, people told the tale of the farmer on the verge of selling his durum wheat for $7.20 per bu. (compared with $1.35 last year) who slipped out to the toilet. By the time he returned, the price had jumped 600. In Maine, clam diggers pocketed $18 per bu. for clams that brought $10 per bu. last year. Tuna harpooners sold their catches for 650 per lb., compared with 150 last year. The food producer...