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...judgement to end his career by getting drunk and strolling off a train trestle during a blizzard. Not exactly the type of ballplayers you'd want to trade your precious 1957 Willie Mays bubble-gum cards for; but to listen to some folks, they're the cream of the crop...
...sticky problem for Congress for years. As the world's biggest importer (11 million tons a year), the U.S. used to control its vast imports by doling out quotas to exporting nations. That system broke down in 1974 when the price of sugar shot up, partly because of crop failures, to a record 64.5? per lb. Overproduction then sent prices dropping again. By the time Carter took office, they had fallen to about 10? per lb., some 3½? below the break-even point for domestic growers. Recalled Agriculture Secretary...
...toward bankruptcy. A lack of consumer goods has encouraged well-organized smuggling; huge quantities of Tanzanian coffee, tea, cotton and cattle clandestinely find their way to free markets in neighboring Kenya. Peasants who have to rely on the state-run distribution network spend days carting their harvests to central crop-collection centers. Once there, they often camp for weeks, sleeping atop bales of cotton or mounds of corn, waiting for cash payments to arrive from Dar es Salaam...
...spoke with one middle-class, conservative wheat farmer from Freonia, Tex., who said, "If we plow up our fields I predict within two years we'll be under an entirely different form of government, because we'll run out of food before we get another crop...
However the year's final sales tally turns out, 1978 models will be notable for other reasons. Detroit is now producing small, or at least smaller, en masse, instead of simply talking about it. The resulting products are leaner, tighter, more economical and technically sophisticated than any other crop of vehicles in the industry's history. Detroit's scale-down is already showing up in car-rental agencies. National calls a Pontiac Grand Prix a full-size car and charges accordingly, even though what the driver gets is a vehicle about as big as yesteryear...