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...action sequences that occasionally distract one from the general silliness of the whole enterprise. Al Lettieri may be the heaviest-handed heavy now operating in the movies, but he does bring a certain entertaining enthusiasm to his work as a big-city hit man lost in the alien corn. Any other actor might have broken up when required to order an innocent and helpless melon crop to be machine-gunned as an act of vengeance. But the sadistic gleam in Lettieri's eye burns bright through a scene that proves there is entirely too much juice and rind...
...indomitable spinster teacher in the pre-World War I South, indomitable Bette Davis was hard at rehearsals last week for Miss Moffat, her first stage role in 13 years. The Broadway-bound production, which opens in Baltimore next month, is a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, in which Davis first starred for Warner Bros, back in 1945. "I'm delighted to have an opportunity to play the character again because now I look the right age," says Davis, 66, who has been working steadily through lunch and cigarette breaks on a part that includes...
...possible that these estimates are a bit too pessimistic. The rains have finally come to most of the Midwest, leading one weather forecaster in Des Moines, Iowa, to announce that the drought was over. If so, farmers might yet squeeze higher yields out of corn already planted. But most farm experts remain discouraged. "So much damage has already been done," says Billy Ray Gowdy, commissioner of agriculture in Oklahoma, where farmers are worried that there will not be enough rain for a good sorghum harvest and that the soil will be far too dry to plant a new crop...
Oddly, consumers could get some initial benefit from the drought. As the prices of corn and soybean feeds rise, farmers are bringing cattle, hogs and other livestock to market early, causing a temporary glut that could help to keep meat prices down-at first. By next winter or spring, though, that oversupply will be exhausted and meat prices probably will rise with a vengeance. There are some signs, too, of a revival of the panicky export buying that in the past has done much to push up U.S. food prices. Foreign buying so far has been no more than moderate...
...Brooke last week was his Senate colleague, George Aiken of Vermont. It was a combination birthday (his 82nd) and farewell party given by former Texas Congressman Frank Ikard for the retiring dean of the U.S. Senate. Aiken admirers donned casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork shirt), Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns (yellow, blue and white sport jacket), Senators Abraham Ribicoff, J. William Fulbright and Herman Talmadge. In a pink pantsuit, former Presidential Secretary Rose Mary Woods...