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Members of the American Agriculture Movement, which sponsored a tractor drive-in to Washington last year to protest low farm prices, demonstrated in front of Government agriculture offices in more than half of Oklahoma's 77 counties. In Sharon Springs, Kans., angry AAM members mounted their tractors and surrounded the office of the U.S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Protest Leader Paul Wilson accused the Government of betrayal. Said he: "We planted fence post to fence post like they wanted, and now this is what happens." Said Wheat Farmer Lysle Davidson Jr. of Johnson City, Kans.; "We think of ourselves...
Grain farms in Cass County, N. Dak., one of the largest counties in the state, average 1,000 acres, and good wheatland costs $1,500 an acre. Thus the typical Cass County farmer is running a business worth $1.5 million just for property. Then comes equipment. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 now costs at least twice as much, and farmers already talk glumly about the advent of $100,000 combines...
...antique typewriters, gramophones and biscuit tins. Americans, with more catholic taste for trivia, have enshrined such unlovely objets trouvés as old flyswatters, orange reamers, apple parers, Kraft cheese jars (a.k.a. "swanky swigs"), Mickey Mousiana, player pianos, Coke bottle tops, beer cans, Barbie dolls, barbed wire and tractor seats-to name only a smattering. Gypsy Rose Lee's mink G string sold for $1,500 to a London banker. In the mid-1920s, the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany dumped carloads of the then unpopular art nouveau glassware that bears his stamp; a well-preserved rare Tiffany lamp...
...often do you change your tractor tires?" Aleksei Kosygin, the Premier, asked Farmer Bergland on his last Kremlin visit. "About every 4,000 hours," he answered. "Engines?" asked the cool-eyed Soviet, a fellow normally associated with missiles and megatons, not farm machinery. "Every 10,000 to 15,000 hours," replied Bergland. The old Russian thought a few seconds and then gave his people a short lecture about the disadvantages of the Soviet policy of replacement by the calendar, not actual need...
...office care given by pediatricians and family practitioners could be handled by competent nurses. Says Dr. Leon Oettinger Jr., a pediatrician in San Marino, Calif: "With its heavy reliance on physicians, the American medical system can be said to be using Cadillacs to do a tractor's job." That may not be the kindest analogy, but the Department of Health, Education and Welfare agrees with the basic analysis: it has endorsed wider use of nurse practitioners in medical care as one way of keeping costs down...