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Last year Bob Farnham clutched 56 passes to lead the nation in receiving, as well as breaking a bushel of Brown pass-catching records. He was All-East, All-Ivy and All-Burn-The-Defensive-Secondary, and was the major depth charge in Brown's explosive offense of a season...
...prices are high. Lately, prices have been running below 1975 levels as buyers anticipate bumper harvests of corn and wheat and lower demand from abroad for U.S. grain because of good harvests in the Soviet Union and India. Last week, September wheat contracts closed in Chicago at $3.19 a bushel, down from $4.13 a year...
...read. His name is John McPhee, he is perhaps the finest non-fiction in America, and he writes on anything, from oranges to flying machines, from tennis to bark canoes. [MORE]'s profile is not so finely crafted, but McPhee's light has been so long under the bushel basket that even this brief uncovering is dazzling...
...pound has been sinking sharply in value. Even so, they are worrisome. Some examples: the sterling price of copper wire bars has jumped 83% above its 1975 low, zinc 44%, nickel 61%, tin 53%, cocoa 161%. In the U.S., soybean futures prices rose 13 cents, to $7.20 a bushel, last week on the strength of rumors of possible large sales to the Soviet Union and China. A recent Common Market economic report notes that the rise in spot commodity prices makes it unlikely that Europe's inflation rates will continue to decline. The dangers are greatest for countries with...
...Boston Globe recently reported similar bets between the governors of Massachusetts and Ohio and the mayors of Boston and Cincinnati. Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis bet 20 pounds of Massachusetts cod against Ohio Gov. James Rhode's wager of a bushel of corn, ten pounds of Lake Erie perch, and ten pounds of Ohio River catfish...