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Walker believes that "the biggest challenge we face is still to make top-quality films," and film critics tend to agree. Though slick and successful, the recent crop of Disney animated and live-action films (Gus, Treasure of Matecumbe, Robin Hood) shows little of Walt's skill at tugging an audience over pop-emotional peaks and valleys. Nor do the forthcoming The Rescuers and Pete's Dragon. Indeed, not since Mary Poppins in 1964 has Disney produced a genuinely smashing, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
...UNITED STATES has also been hit by drought. In California, forests and canyons are tinder dry, and the fire danger is high. Reservoirs in Colorado are down. Drought-caused crop losses in Wisconsin are estimated at $400 million. Despite drought in some areas, however, American growers are expected to harvest more than 2 billion bu. of wheat...
...next three years. By the time of the expected settlement, unfortunately, a staggering amount of food will already have rotted in the fields. Almost 15%, or $10.4 million worth, of the clingstone-peach harvest was lost. So was approximately 5%, or $9.5 million worth, of the thick-skinned tomato crop and about 30% of the total apricot harvest, valued at $4.5 million...
Three months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's economists predicted that retail prices of food would rise only slightly this year. Last week they backed up that welcome forecast. According to the department's spring "crop production" report for 1976, the nation's corn crop will reach a record 6.55 billion bu. this year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent...
...damage already suffered by farmers in northwestern France, Belgium, southern England and northern Italy. Only an estimated 92 million tons of grain, instead of the anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds. There is a beef glut right now-and the chance of a shortage next winter...