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...result, wheat prices have dropped to little more than $2 per bu., v. an average of almost $3 for last year's crop. Growers complain that if prices continue to slip they will not earn enough to cover production costs. Says Earl Hayes, president of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association: "Wheat farmers are in a severely depressed situation." Net farm income has already fallen from an alltime high of $33 billion in 1973 to $22 billion last year, and has continued to decline so far in 1977. Much of the rise in food prices in recent years, says Hayes...
...have been doing and thinking about if half my dorm were girls. I wouldn't have gotten any work done!" he muses. When he and his wife visited a student in the Quad last year, he found Cabot Hall "excruciating." He was amazed to greet an undergraduate in her slip and watch her stroll into a bathroom occupied by several men. "It was like seeing a woman walk into a men's room in a restaurant," he said; "I can't get used...
...enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens without hating it. To Carlo, who for the last seven years had managed to slip into the corner drug store every Sunday while his parents thought he was at Mass, anyone who liked Catholic school qualified as a certifiable madman. Even worse, the kid liked baseball and drank beer like a walking keg and though St. Paul's was a cathedral somewhere. No pretensions...
...slip up this year an accepted male student received a Radcliffe letter of acceptance as a result of a computer error. He had one of those borderline names like Leslie, Jewett says, and the computer had his name stored in the female file...
...American Way of Life with its energy use is like a canoe approaching Niagara Falls. Unfortunately we are all in this boat together, and we have just been thrown the last rope. Are we now going to sit and watch our politicians let it slip away, because they can't decide whether or not it might bruise their fingers if they grab...