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...occasion was one of joy that not even a downpour could diminish. Most of them squished happily through the bog that had once been the White House lawn. One veteran of a Viet Nam prison remarked, "It's not the first time I've sat in the mud to eat, but at least this time I have a chair...
...public life. In 1968 he headed a panel investigating the causes of the student riots at Columbia University. A year later, he was engaged in trying to mediate similar disturbances at Harvard. "He's always trying to find the middle ground so everyone gets some mud on his face," says one colleague...
...months, across much of the nation's farm belt, crops and livestock have been savaged by freezing weather, ice storms and incessant rain. Record floods turned vast stretches of rich loam into great bogs of mud, delaying or barring altogether the planting of spring crops. The weather has at last turned bright, and farmers are racing to make up for lost time. But opinions now differ as to whether enough corn and other crops will be produced this year to boost supplies and hold down soaring food prices...
...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...
...surging Crimson lacrosse team converted a few more believers yesterday by slogging through the mud past the Dartmouth stickmen, in an overtime victory, 7-5, in Hanover...