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...fight the battle of crash reaping and sowing." There were two reasons for that bellicose injunction, broadcast to peasants in Guangxi and Hubei provinces. One was that after several years of mediocre harvests China's fertile southern provinces are now blessed with bumper crops. The other is that the area's farms and communes are desperately short of labor, because hundreds of thousands of Chinese youths have illegally migrated to big cities in search of better jobs and a more exciting way of life...
...theory that Australians ought to take more pride in their country, a government and private-industry group early this month launched a $4.2 million campaign that is supposed to whip Aussies into a chauvinistic frenzy. Bumper stickers and ballpoint pens bearing the slogan LET'S ADVANCE AUSTRALIA are being distributed, and the air waves will soon be flooded with television commercials citing assorted contributions that Australians have made to world progress, such as the invention of a sugar cane harvesting machine. A theme song composed by a Melbourne advertising executive exhorts citizens...
...almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also was not helped by his antismoking campaign. It upset Carter's supporters in tobacco-growing North Carolina, where cars are plastered with bumper stickers that proclaim: CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. Nor did the Georgians overlook Califano's long friendship with Ted Kennedy...
...hard to find since it sports Georgia license plates and a JIMMY CARTER FOR PRESIDENT bumper sticker. The police immobilized the car by applying the so-called French boot (a device that prevents the car from moving) to the left front wheel. Their reason for putting a grip on Ham was Jordan's failure to pay $110 worth of parking tickets he has accumulated since last August. His violations: parking illegally during rush hour, in front of a fire hydrant and twice in no-parking zones. It was the second booting for Jordan. The first was in December...
...hopes of U.S. farmers are as high as an elephant's eye. After several years of bumper crops that left growers dissatisfied with their incomes, they face the unusual and happy prospect of enjoying both substantial grain harvests and rising prices. The key reason for the price surge: widespread expectations in the commodity markets that the Soviet Union may go on another grain-buying binge, in part to make up for an expectedly poor crop this year. That could cause worldwide demand to outstrip production and lead to shortages. Such speculation has driven up prices for corn, wheat...