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...wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is stored up. The Western plains are piled with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan...
From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
...level bureaucrats now deal with a host of University problems including Harvard's stance on its South African-related investments, planting grass in the Yard, and even managing a power plant...
...goat cheese, leeks and other foods. In Britain the Foreign Office is investigating the possibility of bringing international legal action against the Soviets in an effort to recover losses incurred by sheep farmers who were prevented from bringing their animals to slaughter because the sheep had eaten contaminated grass...
...Football League has been no exception. For the past four seasons, Britain's athletic affections have been wooed by television courtiers offering weekly 75-minute highlight films. The lords of commerce, N.F.L. Properties, have tried to sweeten the romance by selling $12 million worth of logo-emblazoned paraphernalia annually. Grass- roots support for the liaison was growing in the form of a new youthful obsession that has seen 110 amateur football teams formed in just three years...