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...recent weeks, though, farmers have become concerned. Commodity markets have again fallen. The main reason: high interest rates are forcing speculators to sell. Early last month, futures prices on the Chicago Board of Trade nosedived. Says Maurice Van Nostrand of AGRI Industries, a giant Iowa grain coop: "There has never been anything like it in the history of trading...
Thus, while Southern farmers are downcast, many of their Midwestern counterparts are happy. The reason: their heavy stocks of wheat or corn in storage are now worth more. Said Maurice Van Nostrand, an official of the giant A.G.R.I. Industries, a cooperative of grain elevator operators: "In the last two weeks, we have been buying three times as much as we did in May. I can't imagine the market being more powerful, even if the Russians were still...
...Senator Dick Clark. Ahead in the polls so far is Roger Jepsen, 49, a former state senator and two-term Lieutenant Governor who campaigns as "the right Republican." He is opposed to abortion, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. Carrying the G.O.P. banner of moderation is Maurice Van Nostrand, 53, an ally of popular Governor Robert Ray. Van Nostrand says that a Jepsen-Clark contest would lead to a Republican defeat of Goldwater proportions...
Along with his wife Elaine, Denholtz, 50, who is chief of dental research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is the author of a new consumer's guide titled How to Save Your Teeth and Your Money (Van Nostrand Reinhold; $8.95). He chides Americans for spending nearly $9 billion a year on dental care "without the foggiest notion" of what their dentists are doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest...
...Nostrand has formed a nonprofit corporation-the Center for Research in Writing-to promote his course, and spends much time pondering new ways to teach writing-and its necessary companion, thinking. "If we could get at what you do when you learn by writing," he muses, "then we'd know how to teach people to think." Anyone for functional thinking...