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...years before Texans ask for 38-liter hats, or a Miss America measures 91-66-91, or a new Hank Aaron hits a towering 109-meter home run. Inevitably and irreversibly, however, the metric system is coming...
Though lawmakers have waffled for decades over proposals to switch to the world standard of weights and measures, chances of passing the so-called U.S. metric conversion bill are considered good when Congress reconvenes this week. The legislation would lead to ultimate adoption of the decimal-based system known as SI,* a modernized version of the metric system used by all advanced industrial nations except the U.S. (Canada and Britain are in the process of converting...
...Children at Denver's Harrington Elementary School took part in the first city-organized metric track meet, a 91-meter dash...
...Twenty-five states, the District of Columbia and several territories have developed uniform guidelines for classroom instruction in the use of the metric system. Beginning in the fall of 1976, Illinois schoolchildren from kindergarten through Grade 6 will be taught both the standard English and the metric systems. In Grade 7 and above, the metric system will be used exclusively...
...immediate history of the present crisis is one of lost opportunities. The production of basic food grains--corn, wheat, rice, barley, and oats--totalled one billion metric tons in 1973, enough to adequately feed four billion people if distributed equally, and the March 15, 1974 report to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, shows that there was a world-wide surplus of grains as recently as 1972. It shows grain production recovering in the years between 1968 and 1971, making up a cumulative deficit of over 100 million metric tons, which had resulted from disastrous harvests...