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...Middle Eastern leaders. Recently published as Dear Israelis, Dear Arabs (Harper & Row; $6.95), the letters make many specific proposals, for example, that Israel make a sample withdrawal in part of the Sinai to demonstrate how general rapprochement might work. Fisher's undertakings have caused his name to crop up so often in cable traffic that the U.S. State Department once asked him to lie low temporarily to avoid confusion with some suggestions...
...that's even bigger-Government interference." In the midst of the nation's harvest this week, Garone and the other 2.9 million American farm owners have scant reason to worry about any of those problems-least of all the openhanded Federal Government. The 1972 crop should show the most bountiful per-acre yield ever, and farm income has risen a healthy 8% this year. "Never in my life have I seen a situation like this," marveled a key Midwestern farm leader. "All across the board the prices we are getting for our crops are high. We see profits...
...Tractor. In the Byzantine world of farm economics, prosperity does not necessarily depend on record production. In fact the Agriculture Department estimates that total crop production in 1972 will be about 1% less than last year. But since many crops were in oversupply last year, prices were down. This year, by contrast, the market belongs to the farmer. Tobacco auctioneers in North Carolina, where the crop was kept short by the weather, are being forced to ration tobacco at premium prices among customers; in effect the auctions, though performed for custom's sake, are a sham. In California...
...American Medical Association, relatively few new doctor shows are taking up residency this year. Among them, ABC's Temperatures Rising alone will offset any pathfinding that M* A* S* H may do. Last week's first episode was a clinical study in conditioned responses. The largest crop of newcomers is in the adventure category. Here the blood that gets spilled may be a little more ethnic; but on shows like NBC's Wednesday Mystery Movie and ABC's The Men, the cops, private eyes and international intriguers will be working their accustomed beats. Law and disorder...
...Obviously the social system has collapsed to a degree, leaving a lot of people shipwrecked. The things people believe in don't work as well in terms of them making a life for themselves, and that's something that does crop up again and again in my writing...