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Prodded by drought that has dashed hopes for a bumper Soviet wheat crop, Russian buyers last week returned, as expected, to the U.S. market. They signed contracts to buy 117 million bu., or 3.2 million metric tons, of winter wheat from Cook Industries of Memphis and Cargill Inc. of Minneapolis; at present prices, the deal amounts to about $470 million. That is hardly enough to push American prices up very much, but a big question remains: How much more does the U.S.S.R. plan...
Scenes from American Life continues to alternate in repertory with Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theater, Scenes is just that--a series of 36 of them, to be exact, all having something to do with upper-middle class life in Buffalo. A.R. Gurney, Jr., the author, based this comedy on his own experience, and it extends in time from the Depression to the future. At BU at 8 p.m. Call 363-3392 for information...
...nostalgic evocation of a normal American small-town boyhood--the king of boyhood O'Neill might have liked to have had himself. Complete with puppy love, comic uncles, and summertime pranks, the play sometimes verges on sentimental corn. But a good production--such as this one by the BU Summer Repertory Theater is likely to be--can make it all work wonderfully, and it's worth seeing just to get a glimpse of the lighter side of O'Neill's psyche. It's hard to believe that the same family--O' Neill's own--was the model both for this...
Having no seniors on the boat this year is an advantage, Baker said. Last year the crew had to wait until after graduation to leave for the National, held in California the next day. "The eight and four came in second behind BU. "We beat them three or four times during the regular season. The long flight before the race really hurt the crew's performance," Baker said...
...targets, the Government will send the farmer a check for the difference. The targets since 1973 have replaced the old-style support prices, under which the Government actually bought up the commodities and stockpiled them. The new target price would be increased as follows: on wheat from $2.05 per bu. to $3.10; on corn from $1.38 per bu. to $2.25; on cotton from...