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...glued together tiny collages, which he called Naturelles-accidental impastos of tissue paper, newsprint, and cardboard stamped with the tread of automobile tires or feet-in an uncanny anticipation of abstract expressionism. He took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s, his work grew close to that of Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove in a search for a mystical reunion with natural form...
...weeks after President Kennedy gave U.S. traders the go-ahead on grain sales to Communist countries, the Commerce Department authorized the export of 2,600,000 bushels of corn to Hungary. The first sales, involving Minneapolis' Cargill Inc. and Manhattan's Continental Grain Co., amounted to $4,306,860-just a few kernels compared with the $250 million feast that is anticipated when the Communists start buying wheat...
...truce will settle little beyond what sums are involved. Both sides fear that yielding in the first test of Common Market agricultural protectionism would set a pattern for the later and larger decisions about wheat, corn, sorghum and rice. The Europeans stipulated that the panel's fact findings are not to be legally binding; the panel will not even consider possible remedies for the lost U.S. chicken business. Still, optimists hope that during the truce, both sides may find it easier to make concessions...
...stood in tears amid the alien corn...
...howl last week that authorities did not know how to get rid of the birds without losing the pigeon-fancier vote. To trap and kill the birds, they would probably need an amendment to the state conservation law. A few do-it-yourselfers were reported baiting the pigeons with corn, then clubbing them to death with baseball bats. A more scientific and humane though admittedly long-range remedy was proposed by an ornithologist: let the city feed the pigeons all they will eat, but have the corn treated with chemicals that will make the birds sterile...