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...example, in the past 15 years, increasingly potent seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, along with ever more advanced methods and machinery, have almost doubled the average corn yield to 92 bu. an acre. On some experimental farms, yields have already reached 300 bu. Soybean yields have risen by half a bushel an acre per year for the past ten years, to about 30 bu. The Government figures that by 1985, soybean production will increase by more than 30%, to 2 billion bu., and that estimate seems low. Agronomists contend that they could double the soybean crop in a few years...
...course of the spring schedule, who lacerated each new opponent with the decisive and unalterable impact of a Watergate paper shredder, who achieved, succeeded, mastered, and dominated the Eastern baseball world with a team boasting only nine seniors, with the remainder of the squad coming from the potent and cocky sophomores and juniors, the Harvard baseball team returns intact...
...that Nixon "might be willing, in a more tangible way, to confirm what he was saying." Republican Congressman Mark Andrews of North Dakota agrees that the public is more concerned about high food prices than about Watergate, but he also believes that the two different problems "make a most potent political combination...
Burned Sellers? Confronted by the politically potent cattlemen-and by the cries of beef-hungry consumers-the Administration may yet be forced to cave in and call off the freeze prematurely. The pressures on the White House will grow because the shortage is likely to become much worse in the next two weeks. The nation's price controllers doubtless made a bad mistake last month in continuing the beef freeze and simultaneously announcing the date on which it would end, thus tempting cattlemen to hold their animals off the market until then. But lifting the ceiling before Sept...
...free to make mercy killing obsolete. Dr. Anderson practices in Britain where it is legal for a doctor to give heroin to a patient (usually a terminal-cancer victim) after morphine has ceased to be effective. In the U.S. it is unlawful for a physician to employ this most potent of all painkilling drugs even for a patient in extremis, for whom there can be no danger of addiction...