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...opponent, conservative Republican James Abdnor, 57, a bachelor wheat farmer and popular four-term Congressman, maintains that McGovern has lost touch with South Dakotans. Says Abdnor: "I'm the first working farmer off a tractor that South Dakota ever sent to Washington. I represent the mainstream." Abdnor favors Government price supports for farm products and a stronger national defense, but less Government spending on social welfare programs-all popular stands in the state, where nearly 25% of the 689,000 people live on farms...
...standard of moral rectitude; it also set the boundaries of the city, in a manner described by Charles William Eliot II in S.B. Sutton's Cambridge Reconsidered: "The optimum area for a town was figured by the time-distance from a meeting house which would permit the farmer to milk his cows, harness old Dobbin, drive his family to the meeting house, endure a two-hour sermon berfore refreshment at the tavern, and drive home again to milk the cows in the evening...
...even then everyone insisted on waving and posing for movie cameras. Two animated cartoons shown in movie theaters demonstrate the depth of feeling against the Wobblies--in one, a rat (wearing the requisite Bolshevik beard) tries to steal an ear of corn from the stockpile of a virtuous farmer. Fortunately, the farmer's vigilance matches his productivity, and he exterminates the rat (labeled "Bolshevist--IWW") with two quick shovel blows. The music in the production is less authentic and less moving--sung too well, it sounds more studio than picket line...
Bryant's long career began in Moro Bottom, Ark. His father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents...
...summer in order to save on feeding them. Initially, this depressed beef prices, but the long-term effect will be to deplete the herds, reduce supply and make meat more expensive later. The production of soybeans, another animal fodder, is off 19% this year, although prices paid to the farmer have jumped 24%; this will mean higher prices for beef, as well as for salad and cooking oils. The heat also killed 5.3 million chickens. Wheat is the one bit of good news on the farm. This year's harvest is expected to be 10% above last year...