Word: agronomist
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...destitute are bedded down in churches and private homes, get free medical attention at Cambridgeport Clinic and legal aid from volunteer lawyers. To keep the hippies busy, Parks Commissioner John Warner has supplied tools to clear 25 debris-cluttered city lots. Self-styled Hippie Agronomist John MacConnell, 30, a Syracuse University dropout, plans to plant corn in the lots because he thinks that "everyone should have a chance to eat sweet corn out of a garden...
Agricultural Engineer Clarence Hansen and Agronomist A. Earl Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...
...however, could be regenerated chemically to taste like anything from steak to bourbon. This will provide at least a partial answer to the doomsayers who worry about the prospect of starvation for a burgeoning world population. Actually, the problem could be manageable before any frogman wets a foot; Oxford Agronomist Colin Clark calculates that if all the presently arable land were farmed as the Dutch do it, it could support a population of 28 billion. Even the gloomiest forecasts assume a world population of not more than twice the present size, or 6 billion by the year...
Wednesday, February 9 I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Turkish Delight," Diana Sands plays a shapely Israeli agronomist and Victor Buono an overstuffed Ottoman...
...Agronomist Judah Singer, the ring hoped to persuade the British to attack Palestine's undermanned garrisons early in the war, thereby saving the Jewish population from Turkish persecution and paving the way for an eventual Jewish state. Its chances of success, figured one member, were about the same as those of "a chicken scratching at the feet of a camel," while failure might cost the lives of all Palestinian Jews. In any event, as the group well knew, "our people will despise us for what we are doing. Jews have a long hatred against spying. We will be without...