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America's prodigiously fertile farm lands will yield some 2.04 billion bu. of wheat this year, the third best crop in U.S. history and only 107 million bu. less than the 1976 record. Corn production is approaching 6.1 billion bu., second only to last year's alltime high of 6.2 billion bu. A third basic crop, soybeans, will yield 1.8 billion bu. v. a previous record of 1.5 billion bu. in 1973. Beyond what it can consume and export, the U.S. will have on hand 84 million metric tons of those products at year...
...wheat will be "an incentive to expand production. The cost of the program will get so high that it will have to be modified." Others argue that the 20% set aside for wheat will accomplish little, since farmers will withdraw their less productive land and concentrate on planting high-yield acreage. In fact, some Agriculture Department officials project that even a full 20% set-aside program will cut production by no more than 8%. There is also some question as to whether the cutbacks were announced in time: in Colorado, for example, 60% of winter-wheat planting had taken place...
...neutrons are released, which are effective in killing people without destroying buildings or vehicles. They can, for example, penetrate enemy armor at considerable ranges, though such armor can be made resistant to the blast and heat of a regular nuclear explosion, except in direct or near-direct hits. "Large yield" nuclear weapons, on the other hand, are designed to enhance heat and blast-the major killing factors in the atomic bombs dropped on Japan...
...would destroy all structures within only a 140-yd. radius. It would instantly kill anyone within a half-mile radius, and for people within a one-mile range would cause delayed deaths up to a month after the blast (see chart). But because of its low-yield blast and heat effect, it would spare all buildings beyond a 140-yd. radius of ground zero. Moreover, the radiation dissipates quickly, and would not affect an area beyond a radius of 1% miles. More than other nukes, the bomb is thus very much a precision weapon, designed for battlefields of limited size...
...many of the offbeat cases, the implicit demand seems to be that all customary standards, tastes, proprieties and practices must yield to the whims and oddities of the individual. Still other cases seem to envision the abolition of all exclusivity, whether its purpose is malign or not. Exclusive societies of professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers) exist for perfectly decent reasons. And certain groupings of artists for different decent aims. Yet, federal funds were briefly withheld from a Connecticut school on the ground that its boys' choir, by existing, encouraged sexist discrimination-and never mind the unique musical reasons why boys...