Word: farmers
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Born in Tempe, Ariz., a little agricultural town south of Phoenix, Finch was introduced early to political life by his father, a cotton farmer and one of a handful of Republicans in the state legislature. Three bad harvests in a row forced a move across the state line, and in 1930 Robert Finch Sr. took a job as a sales manager in San Francisco. Two years later, the family transferred to Southern California, where his son has lived ever since. Young Bob was deeply influenced by his father, and when he died of cancer in 1941, Finch struck out almost...
Pesticides such as DDT, parathion, aldrin and dieldrin are both ally and enemy to man. The chemicals annihilate predators: the aphids that plague rose fanciers, disease-bearing mosquitoes, beetles that spread Dutch elm disease, in sects that devour crops. As a farmer's helper, pesticides increase crop yields, hence profits. But poison is blind. Loosed annually by the ton from planes, boats, trucks, tractors and handy spray cans, it cannot isolate its target. Since Rachel Carson exposed the pesticides' threat seven years ago, in Silent Spring, evidence of the chemicals' pernicious effects on birds, plants, fish, animals...
Considering the problems pants present, the current female fascination with trousers is a little baffling. Yet they appear everywhere, in all sorts of styles and at all sorts of places. Some hang from the shoulders like farmer's overalls; others hug the hips like an Italian gigolo, or stick to the thighs as if the wearer had just emerged from a shower. In denim and khaki, they go to student protests and love-ins; in lace, they go to dinner and the theater; in twill and flannel, they even go to the office...
Sooner or later, the great migration had to taper off. After a quarter of a century, the revolution in agricultural techniques finally produced a kind of demographic equilibrium. One farmer now feeds and clothes 42 other people. His spread averages 377 acres, 30% larger than a decade ago. And this evolution has ensured his survival...
...Scott I think your life as an entirely does more to effect the destiny of your species than any specific thing you do outside yourself. If you are happy being a farmer you will do more good than being an unhappy president. Create happiness, Scott. To create happiness it must have a solid constant foundation in yourself before you can help the species be happy. All else is a confusion and death. Our symbolic means of communication sprang from confusion, not peace. I think symbols often create further chaos. Think of the Neanderthal. Communication by lovely wave-lengths and perhaps...