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...wholesale prices on a broad range of biscuits and other products by 10%. In addition, farm-commodity prices have been dropping for months. Many experts, looking forward to a bumper crop this fall, expect the trend to continue. Since October, corn has slid from $4.03 to $2.84 per bu., wheat from $5.45 to $3.61 and sugar, which was trading at a horrific 64? per lb. in November, to 28? on commodity markets. Choice beef has been declining. But increasingly tight supplies will probably force it up by 10? or 12? per lb. at retail levels this spring or summer...
...enough." Mr. Harper refused an offer from a Boston SWP former candidate for statewide office to "work out a compromise proposal" with the proposal for "just three slogans and a march" submitted by YSA members and NSCAR coordinators Maceo Dixon and Paul Mailhot and coordinators Ray Sherbil of BU and Marcia Coodling of Northeastern U., and submitted his own proposal with Mr. Sherbil. Mr. Harper does not accept the notion forwarded by a member of the YSA national executive board (council or whatever) that the "NAACP has finally decided to do something concrete and call for this (May 17) action...
...butler who reforms the family. Made in 1938 by Gregory La Cava. This, along with limitation of Life are showing Friday night (Godfrey at 9 p.m., the other at 7:30 and 11 p.m.) as part of the excellent Hollywood Film Series that's been going on at BU's Sherman Auditorium. Saturday night at the same times are Kiss Before the Mirror and Showbeat...
Astaire and Rogers. Some BU film group claims to be showing "a rare Astaire/Rogers film made in 1936" at Sherman Auditorium this Saturday at 9 p.m. Now this might be Follow the Fleet, which is never around, is supposed to be terrific, and has "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" in it. But Swing time, which is not rare (although the best Astaire and Rogers film there is) was also made in 1936. Anyway this mysterious, possibly bogus entity will be screened with Cat People, a low-budget thriller made in 1942. Cat People...
...PHANTOM OF LIBERTE. A Series of surreal blackout sketches by Luis Buñuel, loosely grouped around the theme of man's perverse pleasure in paradox. Buñuel creates in this film a paradox of his own: a work that is carbolic and tonic all at once...