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...Manual for the Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations has sold nearly 900,000 copies. Oklahoma's Plowman's Folly, written in 1943 by a county agricultural agent, Edward H. Faulkner, not only sold 355,000 copies, but, by advocating shallow disk harrowing for small-grain crops instead of deep plowing, literally reshaped the landscape of rural America...
...case of over-the-counter aspirin, even so crude a test device as the irritable stomach of a man with a hangover will sometimes show a distinction: two five-grain tablets of one brand, especially from a half-empty bottle that has been in the medicine chest for a cou ple of months, will promptly give him heartburn, whereas the same dose of another brand may have no such effect...
...final package included a massive list of 60,000 items on which tariffs are to be pulled down an average 35% by 1972, a special agreement on the thorny issue of chemical duties, a plan to provide grain for underdeveloped nations, and a code to curb below-cost "dumping" of products in world markets. Clearly reflected was the fact that there had been plenty of room for economic maneuver even after the weary Geneva negotiators, under firm prodding by GATT's British Director General, Eric Wyndham White, came to a basic agreement seven weeks ago (TIME...
...AGRICULTURE. After dropping its demand for guaranteed access to Europe's grain markets, the U.S. persuaded reluctant Europeans (and the even more reluctant Japanese) to join in a pioneering food-aid plan for hungry nations. Of 4,500,000 tons of grain a year, the U.S. will contribute 42%, the Common Market 23%, Canada 11%, Britain, Australia and Japan 5% each. Altogether, that aid comes to less than half of the grain the U.S. has been donating annually to such countries as India, Pakistan 'and Brazil. But Europe and Japan will have to buy their share for cash...
...such stagy prattle as: "Don't you like him any more? I mean are you afraid it was just (pause) physical?" For those who wonder whatever happened to that angry young hippie, Mort Sahl, Doctor casts him in a cameo part as a square nightclub owner. Even a grain of Sahl adds no flavor to this tasteless trifle...