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Flood Tide of Plenty. That lesson has never been more conclusively demonstrated than in the summer of 1965. This month and next, despite three decades of heroic federal efforts to limit the land's insistent bounty, farmers from ocean to ocean and border to border will harvest the largest crop in the nation's history-1.4 billion bu. of wheat, up 7% from last year; 4.1 billion bu. of corn, up 15% ; 961 million bu. of oats, up 9% ; 624 million bu. of grain sorghum, up 27% ; 120 million tons of hay, up 3% ; 864 million...
Manhattan's new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is also meant to be a showcase for the visual arts. One plaza is already filled with a computerized, illuminated fountain. To adorn another, the center's designers sought a "heroic" sculpture to break up the geometric, travertine-and glass-sided space between four buildings. They picked Britain's monumental Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959) to fill the tall order. Last week the largest Moore sculpture ever made arrived-a two-piece bronze whose shells are cast as thin as a paperback whodunit, yet still weigh...
...belly full of drugs, can be one of medicine's most devilish problems. Before they can prescribe an antidote, doctors must identify the drugs-and all too often the suicide is the only available source of information. How to ask him? Merely keeping him alive is a heroic chore. Oxygen, artificial respiration and a tracheotomy may all be called for simply to keep the comatose patient breathing and pumping blood...
...stretching his income. Like most other 19th century clergymen, he could travel free on the railroads while on church business and got reduced rates at hotels. Many communities developed their own local way of helping out the men, and the women, of the cloth. San Francisco, grateful for the heroic acts of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity during the 1906 earthquake, decided that they could forever ride free on the cable cars-and they do to this day. For that matter, the none-too-numerous clergymen who still take trains travel at half fare...
...ROUNDERS. Two experienced cow-hams, Fonda père (Henry) and Glenn Ford, deftly spoof the leathery heroic roles they used to play for real...