Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worry about any of those problems-least of all the openhanded Federal Government. The 1972 crop should show the most bountiful per-acre yield ever, and farm income has risen a healthy 8% this year. "Never in my life have I seen a situation like this," marveled a key Midwestern farm leader. "All across the board the prices we are getting for our crops are high. We see profits in hogs, corn, cattle, soybeans and wheat...
Says Mrs. Harriet Pierce, Midwestern head of the league: "We see this amendment as a weapon of the women's liberationists to destroy the family structure. We fear it will lead to marriage among homosexuals, the drafting of women into the Army and the crumbling of the American family." But such is the feminist movement's impact that even those opposing it have been drawn along with its basic tenets. One league spokeswoman, Mrs. Dolores H. Pelayo, insists: "We of course want equal rights and equal pay. But now they have begun to do silly things. I heard...
...Franklin, now 25, had a traditional middle-class Midwestern upbringing. In 1965, when she was 18 and a college freshman, her sorority sisters talked about their sexual feelings only with extremely close friends, and nearly all gossiped about girls they suspected of having affairs. "Virginity was all important," Sue remembers. Then her boy friend of five years standing issued an ultimatum: "Either you go to bed with me or I'm leaving you." She gave in and was overcome with remorse. "My God," she thought, "what have I done? The more I learned about sex, the guiltier I felt, especially...
...April 5, 1971). Some 20,000 Mazdas were sold last year, even though the car has been made available in only 20 states. Mazda already ranks as the seventh biggest-selling import. Toyo Kogyo, the manufacturer, has received no fewer than 2,300 applications for some 100 Eastern and Midwestern dealerships that will be awarded this summer and fall...
...shippers have packed up and left the troubled port. Last fall, United Fruit shifted its banana loading to Albany, 124 miles up the Hudson River. Company officials expect that distribution costs will be lower out of Albany, even though the new location adds eleven hours of travel time. Some Midwestern shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak...