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...Grain farms in Cass County, N. Dak., one of the largest counties in the state, average 1,000 acres, and good wheatland costs $1,500 an acre. Thus the typical Cass County farmer is running a business worth $1.5 million just for property. Then comes equipment. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 now costs at least twice as much, and farmers already talk glumly about the advent of $100,000 combines...
...murmured comments in the rooms before and after Kennedy appeared revealed that the Republican debate of the previous Saturday had a remarkable impact on the audience. It seemed that every person had watched it. Some of those Iowans liked Philip Crane's fast, hard answer against the grain embargo better than Ted Kennedy's hesitant objection. Moreover, the Crane jaw was just as finely formed and the hair was equally abundant. John Anderson's eloquent appeal for compassionate government had more fact and fervor than did Teddy's. Anderson's endorsement of the grain embargo...
...improvement, in the status of the hostages in Iran, for example, would obviously help the President; a continued stalemate might hurt. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan automatically improved Carter's standing; in a crisis, Americans tend to rally to a President. Carter's decision to impose a grain embargo, on the other hand, cost him some of the support he had gained...
Back in the pack, Robert Dole, Phil Crane and John Anderson may draw more votes than expected because of their performances in the debate. Anderson stood out by forthrightly telling people things they do not want to hear: the grain embargo was justified, gas should be taxed 50? a gal. Yet Anderson has hardly bothered to campaign in Iowa. "The caucuses don't mean anything," he says. "It is New Hampshire that counts." And that is where he spent last week. But all the other presidential hopefuls would not trade snowbound Iowa for a South Seas paradise until...
...looked like a practical, patriotic and eminently political solution to the problem of what to do with the grain that Jimmy Carter embargoed. Some of it, pledged the President, would be used for a "massive increase" in domestic production of gasohol. A federally supported program would provide something for almost everyone: more customers for farmers, more fuel for motorists and more protection for the nation from OPEC'S oil price increases and supply cuts. But, when the Administration plan to boost the gasoline stretcher was unveiled last week, it looked a lot less than massive and even...