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...violently inflationary year of 1974, sugar seemed to many consumers an even bigger villain than oil. A combination of rising demand and crop losses due to bad weather caused the price per pound of raw sugar delivered in New York to multiply almost six times between January and November, to a high of 64^0. Angry consumers organized boycotts, but growers believed that they would not succeed. They thought sugar was one of those little luxuries that people would pay almost anything...
...brief, consumers did rebel: American per capita consumption last year was less than 95 lbs., down 8½ lbs. from 1973. At the same time, growers, enticed by the high prices, overplanted, and are now turning out more sugar than anyone wants to buy. World production in the crop year ending Aug. 31 is forecast to be 87.7 million tons, or 4.4 million tons more than the expected demand...
...high range, the voice moves with greater facility than most voices nowadays--but that's only because today's crop of singers are unable to handle high notes. Jose Carerras or Placido Domingo often sing not just arias, but entire acts a whole step down. Today Tenors with "tops" are special phenomena. One need only recall singers like Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, whose upper range range with a clarion brilliance that would bury any Pavarotti high C. The great Fancesco Tamagno, the original Otello and perhaps the greatest Otello of all time, would often take arias up a half step...
Temperatures plummeted to a record low of 35 degrees, forcing the University to turn the heat back on in dorms and classrooms. Up to a foot of snow fell in areas of Boston, felling power lines and endangering the state's apple crop. If anything, however, personnel in the Department of Buildings and Grounds welcomed the snow...
...Harvard Experience. (ahem) How does Webster's Dictionary define "Harvard?" A quick, haphazard glance provides this definition: "The gathering of crops...The season when ripened crops are gathered, a crop or yield of one growing season...