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The continuing drought threatens to cut into this year's food production as well. To combat this danger, hundreds of thousands of urban office workers are being sent out to work in the countryside. In eastern Shansi province, which has had less than one-fourth of an inch of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: One Mouthful Less | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Passage of the bill would thus close off the only stretch of the entire Gulf and Atlantic coastlines still available to supertankers. The huge ships, which can carry as much as 3,000,000 bbl. of oil, draw up to 89 ft. of water at dockside. Delaware, the only other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: And Now, Superports | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

As some of the best-fed, not to say most overfed, people in the world, Americans obviously have much to be grateful for in the farm program. Moreover, the U.S. is hardly the only nation that subsidizes its farmers; many foreign countries have even more elaborate arrangements-and higher food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Plant a New Farm Policy | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORT on Black Rock Forest is unacceptable not only for its bizarre self-contradictions but also for its quick willingness to betray principles traditionally considered inviolable. The report recommends that Harvard abandon its nine-year stand and permit the sale of 240 acres of the area to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Day For Black Rock | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt had been his idol and his model, and he set about to complete the New Deal. A cornucopia of liberal legislation-part Roosevelt New Deal, part Kennedy New Frontier, part Johnson's own Great Society -poured forth in housing, antipoverty programs, education, conservation, civil rights, Medicare. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERS: Lyndon Johnson: 1908-1973 | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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