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With enrollment soaring at U.S. agricultural colleges, an increasing number of the new students are coming not from the hills and hollows but from the cities. At Illinois, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin, more than 50% of the aspiring agriculturists were not raised on farms. Ohio State's William Flinn, a rural sociologist, has devised a test to measure their initial ignorance. He whimsically calls it "The Udder American IQ Test." Sample questions...
Aside from ripple control, so far the most feasible system for managing electrical load may be one developed by a firm based in Cambridge, Mass., called American Science & Engineering Inc. Its method, a bidirectional power-line carrier, is currently undergoing testing in homes in New Jersey and Wisconsin. The system costs $175 per installation, v. $79 for the ripple controller. But it allows for two-way communication between a utility and a household with two apparent advantages over ripple control: meter information can be conveyed directly through the system, thus obviating the need for an extra meter and someone...
Bearded and brash, Hinds, 47, is a comer from way back. At ten he was sent to a reformatory as a truant. A varsity boxer at the University of Wisconsin, he later taught art. In 1958 he began selling life insurance in Madison, Wis.; fifteen years later, he had sold $20 million in term policies-the highest tally in the land...
...even continue producing an old one. And without the reality of profit, no business in the long run can keep itself alive-except by government subsidy, which has to be paid partly out of taxes levied on the profits of other businesses. Says Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, often a critic of U.S. business: "Profits are what drive this great economy...
...undergoing a cooling trend and is returning to the conditions of the "Little Ice Age"-the generally cold, damp weather that prevailed from around 1600 to 1850. British Climatologist Hubert Lamb believes the change is cyclical, occurring every 200 years or so. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and many others blame the earth's cooling on an increase of dust particles in the atmosphere; the particles act like tiny mirrors, reflecting back some of the sunlight sinking the atmosphere and depriving the earth's surface of solar heat...