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...distant struggle with the Soviet government and his final, forced hegira into exile with the kind of awe that might attend the trial and burning of Joan of Arc. He is the world's most celebrated writer. The Gulag Archipelago, with massive printings now pouring its cornucopia of Communist cruelties into book clubs and bookstores all over the U.S., seems about to become his most popular work...
...last week, Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, called officials of five major farming nations, including the U.S., to an urgent conference Sept. 20 that will consider ways to deal with a threatened global wheat pinch. U.S. agriculture, long regarded as a bottomless cornucopia whose output had to be deliberately held down, has suddenly seemed unable to turn out all the food that Americans and foreigners want...
...moment of his stay as Richard Nixon's guest. His mission was, of course, deadly serious: he wants U.S. money, technological know-how and hardware to develop the Soviet economy. In return, he implied future flexibility on arms control and proffered access to the Soviet Union's cornucopia of raw materials and a considerable amount of purposeful good will and bonhomie. It was a masterly performance aimed at erasing in American minds the cold war image of Russia as antagonist and replacing it with a vision of a peaceful, stable and sophisticated trading partner...
Shortly after acquiring Saturday Review in July 1971, Publishing Entrepreneurs Nicolas Charney and John Veronis unveiled a startling plan for revamping the amiable middlebrow weekly into four special-interest monthlies. Following the successful pattern they had established at Psychology Today, Charney and Veronis also inaugurated a cornucopia of Saturday Review spinoffs, including book publishing, a book club and the sale of records and assorted cultural artifacts. At one point they were even vending mail-order fruit cakes. The idea, which seemed highly plausible, was to amass a large magazine-subscription list and to sell these customers a variety of products...
Franklin Roosevelt had been his idol and his model, and he set about to complete the New Deal. A cornucopia of liberal legislation-part Roosevelt New Deal, part Kennedy New Frontier, part Johnson's own Great Society -poured forth in housing, antipoverty programs, education, conservation, civil rights, Medicare. After his crushing defeat of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, Johnson pushed through such bills as the Highway Beautification Act and the Appalachian Regional Development Act. The $11.5 billion tax reduction had already aided a major economic surge, though his manipulation of the budget set the stage for the present inflation...