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These were the sights and the sounds-and the results were spectacular. Despite the shackles of Government control, the American farmer in 1962 has broken through to a new per-acre production record. Kansas wheat ran to an average of 23.5 bu. as against a 1951-60 mark of 19.1. North Dakota wheat yielded 28.7 bu., more than twice last year's, and nearly double the ten-year average. Iowa corn came in at 76 bu. per acre, well above the ten-year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million...
...Frank, 24, and his wife Jane live in a modern pink-and-gray clapboard house built from architect's plans in a farm magazine. The elder Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock, including a $9,000 combine, two pickup trucks, a 2½-ton truck and three tractors. Helen England raises German shepherd dogs, earned $2,300 last year, and used part...
Durum & Ducks. Far away in North Dakota, where the land is flat as a flapjack and rich as Fort Knox, lives the Crockett family, descendants of Davy and just as tough. Bill Crockett and his two married sons Claude and Willard farm 5,000 acres of durum wheat, oats and barley in Cavalier County, just south of the Canadian border. Bill served as North Dakota's speaker of the house in 1935, still takes a lively interest in politics. But his real love, and that of his sons, is the land. Last year alone the three Crockett men spent...
...down British living standards and, more important, break the ties that link the Commonwealth nations. ("Why are you British deserting us?" he once asked Britain's Queen Mother.) Extension of Common Market tariff walls to Britain would probably force his British bakeries to buy French instead of Canadian wheat...
...setting the tone of the play, is simply too weak too make convincing lines like "Your father, he used to take me. That's the way with men of good stock; good blood. Your grandfather left a son on every corner. That's what I like. Men, men; wheat, wheat." Yes; but it must be imposing, and she is as ineffectual as her son (Stephen Gehlbach). The production does not in fact begin to move until the third act, when the Moon (Jere Whiting) completely takes over from the director. "I want no shadows," he intones, "My rays must...