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...wheat prices rise or fall according to world supply. Last year wheat was plentiful, and the prices sank to $2 a bushel...
...quiet under a maroon-and-white bathrobe. His 18-month-old daughter's doll lay near by, and from the next room came the laughter of his third wife, Veronica, and another daughter. The room filled gradually with relatives, gym figures, musicians, sycophants, friends. His dietician entered, carrying a bushel bag of carrots. The champ suddenly clucked. Everyone jumped. This sound of a popping champagne cork is Ali's command signal. It was a summons for his infant daughter, Laila, dutifully brought in by her nanny and admired by the claque...
...begin with, both of tonight's scheduled events-men's basketball at Columbia, and wrestling versus Princeton--will not be held. Beyond that, nothing is certain. Events are dancing around on the Harvard sports calendar like a bushel of Mexican jumping beans...
Princeton boasts a veteran coach (Bill Farley), mucho lettermen, and a bushel of past clutch victories. On ice it may be different, but in chlorinated water Princeton has ruled the Ivies for half a decade. They know when the big meets are, they're always in them...
Mail has poured into the Carter transition headquarters by the bushel -more than 5,000 pieces in the first week. The Carter staff announced that the call had yielded over 300 "constructive" suggestions. A sampler...