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Farmers are furious over the bans. "They've taken away the insecticides that really do the job," says Steve Pfister, a Lexington, Neb., corn and alfalfa farmer. But entomologists and some farm experts feel that in the long run, less dependence on pesticides will be beneficial to the farmer. Many scientists believe that the introduction of pesticides like DDT, which promised easy pest control, actually intensified the problem by encouraging the abandonment of such traditional?and sound?agricultural practices as rotating and diversifying crops and adjusting times of planting to avoid insect infestations. "Insecticides have failed not because...
Heavy Switch. Watching the early bad news up in his room at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Carter turned to Barry Jagoda, a former CBS producer who coordinates coverage of the Carter campaign with the networks. "How often are they wrong?" he asked. "Seldom," Jagoda replied. "Well, I'm satisfied," said Carter. "I never like to finish second. But I think we've done well here." Half an hour later, at 10:30, he went down to the ballroom, addressed his disappointed backers and offered his "tentative congratulations" to Udall...
...Consultant Richard Scammon put the blame on "a heavier switch than we'd anticipated in rural areas." ABC'S Walter Pfister shrugged it off as "a fluke, an anomaly." All three networks base their projections on a model-precinct system. When the results of those precincts are analyzed, they are supposed to give an accurate projection for a state. But ABC and NBC, in their haste to post a winner, took a gamble when the race was too close to call. At the time ABC projected Udall, the News Election Service (see following story), which supplies the networks...
McGovern and Stans make their pitches in entirely different keys. The McGovern approach was demonstrated recently when some 70 of Wisconsin's wealthy liberals, about half of them Jewish, gathered in Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. They sipped cocktails and munched Wisconsin cheese and crackers until McGovern arrived. After shaking hands all round, he talked quietly but optimistically for 20 minutes about the state of his campaign. Then he answered questions for half an hour. What about tax reform, inheritance taxes, property taxes, defense cuts? Most of his questioners already knew the answers, but the gift-giving ritual requires that they...
Rotarian's Return. No sooner had Ling and several associates installed themselves in a suite at the downtown Pfister Hotel than Ling began his performance. Instead of the Big Man from Big D, Jim Ling played the visiting Rotarian. In a telegram to Allis-Chalmers' board, he offered to pay roughly $45 a share for 51% of the company's common stock-then trading at about $35 -if the board would give its O.K. Such politeness hardly suggested a Texas raider, and Ling himself soon ventured out to win the heart and mind of Milwaukee. He phoned...