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SALINA is almost literally the middle of America, lying in the wheat-rich Kansas prairie equidistant from either coast. The streets are wide and shaded by magnificent Dutch elms. The air is a sweet melange of fresh-cut wheat, mown stubble and clay baking on the river bottoms. A hot, dry wind pours across the plains from the Rockies. Westinghouse tested air pollution in every part of the country before deciding to establish a fluorescent-tube plant in Salina. Instead of traffic reports, the radio offers the latest fishing conditions...
TIME was when food experts round the world regularly issued gloomy forecasts of impending famine and starvation for the earth's exploding population. That rarely happens these days, thanks largely to the Green Revolution brought about by new, high-yield strains of wheat and rice. Thus, when 1,200 authorities wound up the second meeting of the World Food Congress in The Hague last week, the emphasis was less on the problems of paucity than on those of plenty...
...only I could find one," Sam said, mouth full of a homebaked fig wheat cookie Deirdre had slipped...
...Australia's richest grain and grazing country. "You can't drive at more than 20 miles an hour, because if you had to brake, you'd skid and turn over. There are that many of them on the road." Not only on the roads but in wheat paddocks, barns and pantries across huge stretches of Victoria and New South Wales, hordes of field mice now form what one farmer calls "a moving carpet." The rampaging rodents, product of a rare combination of a big wheat surplus and optimum ground temperatures for breeding, constitute the worst such plague...
...event, the 1970 planned increase, 6.3%, is the lowest goal for any peacetime year since the first Five Year Plan was introduced in 1928. Agricultural production actually fell 3% last year, and 1969 grain production dropped 10%. Anticipating severe shortages, the Soviets were forced to buy $150 million in wheat from Canada. Such vital industries as ferrous metals, petrochemicals, paper, cement and autos fell far short of their goals...