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...abundant rain, warm sunshine and winds in April, the Southern corn leaf blight that reduced last year's corn harvest in the U.S. by 10% could devastate the 1971 crop by as much as 50%. Already salesmen in the nation's corn belt are bootlegging blight-resistant seed at high prices...
...Veterans of the Depression's Dust Bowl might understand. But for other Americans, if the elements should conspire to bring on the corn blight, the effect would be all but unnoticed-at least for a time. U.S. farmers have increasingly turned to feeding wheat and soy or cotton seed to their cattle and hogs. Eventually, though, a scarcity of feed corn would raise its price, and the prices of other feeds would rise with it, thus increasing the cost of meat. So the ancient biblical plague would be transmogrified: rural catastrophe, like so much of the nation...
Back-checking and covering extremely well, Cornell frustrated the Crimson's hopes for revenge and third seed in the ECAC's by playing a game that was equally inspired and technically better than Harvard...
...loss will mean fourth seed in the ECAC's and barring upsets, the unenviable job of playing first seed B. U. in the semi finals. A win will mean third seed and the chance to play second-ranked Clarkson, a team Harvard has already beaten once, in the semis. And a win in the semis means a trip to the NCAA...
Game Will Determine ECAC Seed...