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Agricultural Engineer Clarence Hansen and Agronomist A. Earl Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...
...praised part of the antipoverty program, resulted directly from a meeting of Lady Bird with representatives of the Farmers' Union. Now, in pilot projects in four states, retired farmers from 55 to 78 years old work three or four days a week using their know-how with the soil to carry out roadside beautification projects...
...Kinsey's trial; under Tanzanian law, the verdict is rendered by two assessors before it is either accepted or rejected by the presiding judge. Assessors are supposed to be familiar with the customs of the accused's tribe, and Kinsey had to settle for one U.S. citizen, Soil Conservationist Gail Bagley of Elsberry, Mo. The second assessor was a bespectacled Tanzanian economist, Fred Mugobi, who was at least American-educated. The defense counsel was a British-trained, Kenya-born attorney of Greek parentage-Byron Georgiadis...
Ardrey wants to adjourn the biological debate by accepting the territorial principle as a key to the understanding of man and as a solution to all his behavior problems. Why does the Russian collective farmer only listlessly till state soil? Because, says Ardrey, the dispossessed planarian worm lost his zest for life and slipped this attitude into the evolutionary stream untold millions of years...
...Harp. Chicago owes its blues eminence largely to an accident of geography. Practically alone among Northern cities, it has absorbed a steady stream of migrant Negroes from Mississippi, where a fertile folk tradition of spirituals, ballads, work songs and field hollers nourishes the blues the way the rich soil of the Delta sprouts cotton. The result is that all the Chicago blues are shot through with the raw purity of emotion, the lyricism and rhythmic subtlety of the Mississippi country style. Now a whole generation of younger performers have added technical polish and a hard driving sound that reflects...