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Some futurists like to make predictions about homey details of living. The kitchen, of course, will be automated. An A.D. 2000 housewife may well make out her menu for the week, put the necessary food into the proper storage spaces, and feed her program to a small computer. The experts at Stanford Research Institute visualize mechanical arms getting out the preselected food, cooking and serving it. Similarly programmed household robots would wash dishes, dispose of the garbage (onto a conveyer belt moving under the street), vacuum rugs, wash windows, cut the grass. Edward Fredkin, founder of Cambridge's Information...
Food stockpiles at home have shrunk $1.3 billion (to $6.7 billion) since 1960, now consist of 818 million bu. of wheat, 55 million tons of feed grains, 7.7 million cwt. of rice, and 126 million Ibs. of dried milk. Pointing out nonetheless that domestic commodity stockpiles "must be large enough to serve as a stabilizing influence and to meet any emergency," Johnson asked Congress to authorize establishment of reserves for certain strategic commodities. Such reserves, he said, would be built up and maintained by Government purchases on the open market rather than relying on accumulation through subsidies and price-support...
...supplant the efforts of other countries to develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein oilseed of which the U.S. has virtually no reserve stocks...
...many years to develop, but they can become obsolescent almost overnight. Lockheed, which employs 81,302 people, estimates that it must generate an average of $7,500,000 worth of new business every working day just to stay even. Says Courtlandt Gross: "This is quite a hungry mouth to feed, and it gives me plenty of anxiety." Lockheed President Daniel Jeremiah Haughton echoes his chairman: "Every morning this is a problem that gets up with me. I start reflecting on it by the time I've had a cup of coffee. And then I start wondering what our competitors...
...Cattle Baron. But that wasn't all. As a byproduct, Hammer's distilleries made a mash that Hammer sold to cattle-feed manufacturers. This got Hammer interested in cattle, and he stocked his Red Bank, N.J., farm with prize Angus, including a giant champion bull named Prince Eric. "The cattle business turned out to be a bonanza," says Hammer. "In the three years remaining of his life, Prince Eric sired 2,000 calves. That one bull earned...