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...than doubled. As a result, total farm production has greatly increased, despite a steady migration of farmers and sons of farmers into nonfarm jobs. But U.S. demand for farm products has failed to keep pace with the supply, and the result has been an oversupply that has put persistent downward pressure on farm prices and farmers' incomes...
Sweeping the area, the Rangers destroyed two Viet Cong mantraps-camouflaged pits filled with barbed steel spikes. One pit was designed as an inverted cone so that if a leg were thrust into the trap, it would be impossible to pull it up again through the downward-pointing spikes. Rangers warned the U.S. observers examining the pits to avoid the barbs, which are usually covered with human excrement, or stronger poisons if available...
...pressure downward from Pusey will not be the only check on the new Dean's freedom. Another potential challenge comes from a man who on paper would seem to be a subordinate to the Faculty Dean, the Dean of the College, John U. Monro. In practice, however, Monro has tended to subordinate, and has acted more often as a free agent troubleshooting around the Harvard administration at will. The need for such a man is great, but it is apparent only after a rather tortuous line of reasoning has been followed. The theory runs this way: Faculty men have...
...earth's magnetic field. The bubble will probably disappear after 30 to 40 minutes, but while it lasts, it will be an obstacle to the free movement of particles in the radiation belt. Some of them will detour around it and continue on their way. Others, diverted downward, will be caught by the earth's atmosphere. But AEC scientists are certain that the bubble will be too small to affect more than a few percent of the belt's particles. Any major effect on the belt is expected to disappear within a few weeks...
...producing at only 55% of capacity, and they have revised their output estimates from 110 million tons this year down to 100 million tons. Steel is not the only soft spot in the economy. The Commerce Department said last week that twelve of its 29 "leading indicators" are trending downward...