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...precedents are on Ypsilanti's -and Carolyn's-side; courts in ten Midwestern states, including Michigan, have already banned sex discrimination in athletics supported by state funds...
...investigation, which, they claim, reached the courts because of the efforts of two career investigators, Stanley Sporkin and Irving Pollack. There is even speculation in the agency that Cook may have used his inside knowledge of the Vesco contribution to pressure the Administration into naming him, a relatively unknown Midwestern Republican lawyer, as SEC chairman...
...outlook for other yields is far less rosy. Cold weather and rain have destroyed much of Georgia's peach crop, and the prospects for rice and Midwestern apples are glum. Last week Farmer Morris Moeckly looked over his rain-swamped land near Polk City, Iowa, and wryly wondered if his biggest crop this year might be fish. About 60 of his 450 acres are still under water, and Moeckly noted, "It will be much too late to plant corn in there...
Indeed corn, used mainly to fatten animals, is the most threatened feed crop of all. The Government had hoped that 74 million acres of corn would be planted nationally this year, but farmers in most Midwestern states are well behind that schedule. In Iowa, the nation's biggest corn state, deep mud had by last week held plantings to 18% of the total potential acreage, v. 30% at this time last year. Even if the farmers do hit the Government target on acreage, it is doubtful that they will get a big enough crop to fulfill Administration estimates. Seeds...
After asking students who were not interested to leave, Calder talked for an hour about the job. After a week-long salesmanship course in Nashville, Tenn., each student would be assigned to a midwestern town for thirteen weeks, he said...