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...sights and the sounds-and the results were spectacular. Despite the shackles of Government control, the American farmer in 1962 has broken through to a new per-acre production record. Kansas wheat ran to an average of 23.5 bu. as against a 1951-60 mark of 19.1. North Dakota wheat yielded 28.7 bu., more than twice last year's, and nearly double the ten-year average. Iowa corn came in at 76 bu. per acre, well above the ten-year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million acres of cropland...
Durum & Ducks. Far away in North Dakota, where the land is flat as a flapjack and rich as Fort Knox, lives the Crockett family, descendants of Davy and just as tough. Bill Crockett and his two married sons Claude and Willard farm 5,000 acres of durum wheat, oats and barley in Cavalier County, just south of the Canadian border. Bill served as North Dakota's speaker of the house in 1935, still takes a lively interest in politics. But his real love, and that of his sons, is the land. Last year alone the three Crockett men spent...
...more often than not its gross annual volume heads the international list of contractors. Among other things, Kiewit has built the Air Force's base in Thule, Greenland, a giant radio telescope in West Virginia, a Titan missile base in California, Minuteman bases in North and South Dakota, a $1.2 billion AEC gaseous diffusion uranium processing plant in Ohio...
...South Dakota...
...always, many House races will be decided because of fresh new personalities and faces. In normally Republican North Dakota, Incumbent Hjalmar Nygaard, 56, should win but has to contend with the whirlwind drive of handsome Democrat Scott Anderson, who is only 25-minimum age for a Congressman. A political whiz kid, Anderson was elected to the legislature at 21, managed the successful campaigns of Senator Quentin Burdick and Governor William...