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Administration officials bullishly predict that the food and feed prices will ease off by autumn because of 1) the export controls, and 2) an expected rise in this year's output of soybeans and other feed. Better late than never, the Administration this year freed up more land for planting. Only if the Government continues to expand domestic farm production will the nation be able to beat the high cost of eating-and help meet the needs of an increasingly hungry world...
California's crops were severely damaged by a sequence of heavy rain last autumn, devastating cold last winter and late frost this spring. So far this year, shipments of onions, tomatoes and plums are down at least 50%; potatoes are down 33%, and lettuce 25%. With supplies short, prices paid to growers have soared in the past year: from $3 to $8 for a hundredweight of potatoes, and from $1.35 to $7 for 24 heads of lettuce...
Pale as a beautiful autumn...
...Autumn Afternoon, Ozu cuts in for closeups, but does not employ any of the traditional optical devices to bridge scenes. That would be a little like throwing a pebble to change the reflection in a still lake. Instead, he inserts images-a staircase in shadow, an empty hallway, a narrow, brightly lit street -that not only summarize the tone of the scene just finished but establish the feeling of the one to come. Like stanzas in a poem, the scenes stand apart, enriched by what surrounds them...
...honor and obligation, pride and loyalty of family life-dominant and recurring themes in Ozu's work-are once again at the core of An Autumn Afternoon. Chishu Ryu, who played the old man in Tokyo Story, is present this time as a businessman and widower. He spends most of his days away from the office with his cronies, one of whom exults in the invigorating company of a new young wife, another of whom warns of the inevitable encroachments of age. The businessman flirts with the past, memories of his wife and World War II-and with...